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ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



OF 

GRACE CHURCH 

Jamaica, New York 

BY 
HORATIO OLIVER LADD, A.M., S.T.D. 

Rector Emeritus 




THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS 

114-116 E. 28th St. 

New York 

1914 



Copyright, 1914, 
By Horatio O. Ladd. 



JUL 10 1914 

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To the memory of faithful and tried 
Servants of Jesus Christ and Minis- 
ters of the Church of God this 
History is given by one who has 
entered into their labors. 



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THE PUBLISHED WORKS 

OF REV. HORATIO OLIVER LADD, A. M., S. T. D. 

" Memorial of John S. C. Abbott, D. D." 1878, pp. 36, 8vo, A. 
Williams & Co. 

" The War With Mexico," 1883, pp. 328, 8vo, Dodd, Mead & Co., 
New York. 

" The Story of New Mexico," 1891, pp. 473, 8vo, D. Lothrop Co., 
Boston. 

" The Founding of the Episcopal Church in Dutchess County, 
N. Y.," 1894, pp. 46, 8vo. 

" Chunda, a Story of the Navajos," 1906, pp. 257, Eaton & Mains, 
New York. 

" The Trend of Scientific Thought," 1909, pp. 29, The Gorham 
Press, Boston. 

" Ramona Days," 1887-1889, pp. 242, 8vo. 

" Grace Church Chimes," 1897-1910, Quarto. 

" Origin and History of Grace Church," 1914, pp. 475, 8vo, The 
Shakespeare Press, New York. 

Sermons and Addresses — Pamphlets. 

" Memorial of Archdeacon Cooper." 

" Gambling and Its Brood." 

" Historical Address," Trinity Church, Fishkill, 150th Anniver- 
sary, 1906. 

" Story of the Temptation," 1906. 



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Grace Church, Jamaica, 

Exterior, 1906. 

(Photograph by Charles C. Napier.) 



CONTENTS 

PART I 

The Dutch Colonial Period. 

Origin, Population and Settlement of Long Island. Political 
Divisions and Successions of Authority during Dutch and English 
Occupations. Conflict of Denominations and the Church of Eng- 
land. Legislation to establish the latter in authority in the Province 
of New York. Contemporary conditions of the people. 

PART II 

The English Colonial Period. 

The Church of England in Queens County. Building of a church 
in Jamaica. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel organ- 
ized in England. Its object and principles. Application of Grace 
Church for a missionary rector. 

PART III 

Period of the Colonial Missionaries — 1700-1770. 

The religious needs of the Colonies. The character of the mis- 
sionaries. The mission of Rev. Patrick Gordon — original informa- 
tion from the archives of the Venerable Societies. The mission of 
Rev. Messrs. Bartow, Honeyman, Urquhart. Beginnings of a 
sectarian controversy. The ministry of Rev. Thomas Poyer. The 
Poyer controversy — legal aspects and decisions. Legislation. 
Appeals to the Queen's Council. Settlement of English polity in 
the Provinces resulting therefrom. Relations of St. James Church 
of England in Newtown and St. George's in Flushing to Grace 
Church, Jamaica. United rectorships under the Revs. Thomas 
Colgan, Samuel Seabury, Joshua Bloomer. The American Revolu- 
tion in its eflFects on the Church of England in America. The 
religious conditions of the period. The representations of the 
urgent need of an American episcopate. Separation of the three 
Churches from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and 
from one another. 

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PART IV 

The Post-Revolutionary Rectorships — 1795- 1896. 

Revs. William Hammell, Elijah D. Rattoon, and Calvin White. Rev. 
Gilbert Hunt Sayres's ministry to Grace Church, 1810-1830. The 
long rectorship of Rev. William Lupton Johnson, 1830- 1870. Build- 
ing of the new church. Memorials and memorial gifts. The mod- 
ern period, 1892- 1896 — Rev. Dr. Williamson Smith, Rev. Edwin B. 
Rice, Rev. Wm. M. Bottome. 

PART V 

Recollections of the Rectorship of the Author — 1896-1910. 

Developments of church life and worship and structure. Grace 
Churchyard and its associations. The inauguration of Rev. Rock- 
land Tyng Homans as rector, and the building of the Memorial 
Parish House of Grace Church. 

PART VI 

The charter of Grace Church, 1761. With photographic reproduc- 
tion of first page. 

PART VII 

The register of Rev. John Poyer. With photographic reproduction 
of first pages, 1710-1731. 

PART VIII 

Grace Church registers to 1840. Private register of Rev. Gilbert 
Sayres, D. D., to 1867. 

PART IX 

The Book of Burials and inscriptions of tombstones to 1846, com- 
piled by H. Onderdonk, Jr. With photographic reproductions of 
two pages. 

PART X 
Pewholders and Communicants. 

INDEX 
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INTRODUCTION 

By the Right Reverend Frederick Burgess, D. D. 
Bishop of Long Island. 

This History of Grace Church, Jamaica, the first Church 
founded by the Anglican Communion on Long Island, is 
full of interest not merely to the parishioners, but to alt 
students of early American history. In its clearly written 
pages Dr. Ladd has traced the struggle of the adherents of 
the English Church in maintaining the public worship of 
God according to the Use of the Book of Common Prayer. 
The thoughtful reader will see the steady growth of the 
Church through periods of neglect and persecution, until 
it emerges into the position of influence and honor which 
it holds to-day. I feel that the writer has in this work, 
which indicates careful study and thoughtful selection, 
done a distinct and valuable service not only to the Dio- 
cese of Long Island but to the Church in America. It is a 
privilege to commend it to all who are interested in the 
religious development of this country, and more especially 
to those who see in the Anglican Episcopate and all it 
represents, the true promise of stability for the Faith and 
Communion of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic 
Church in the United States of America. 

FREDERICK BURGESS, 

Bishop of Long Island. 
April 28, 1914. 



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List of Illustrations 

Sketch of Grace Church, b)' Bayard Jones. Cover, 

The Author. Frontispiece. 

The Seal of the S. P. G. Title Page. 

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thos. Tenison. 

Queen Anne. 

The Chalice and Paten presented to Grace Church by Queen Anne's 

Bounty. 
Rev. James Honeyman. Rev. Thos. Bray. Rev. Thomas Poyer. 
Rev. Thomas Colgan. 

The Rectory, between Flushing and Jamaica, 1774. 
The Deed of Gift of Land for Church and Churchyard. 
The First Grace Church. 
The Right Rev. Samuel Seabury, D. D., First Bishop of the Church 

in America. 
The Royal Charter of Grace Church. 
The Rev. Gilbert Hunt Sayres, S. T. D. 1 

The Second Grace Church. 

The Hon. Rufus King, from Painting by Gilbert Stuart. 
The King Manor House, 1840. 
The Rev. Charles Seabury. The Rev. Timothy Clowes. The Rev. 

William Lupton Johnson, D. D. 
Grace Church Interior. 

Two Views of the Sanctuary and Churchyard. 
The Rev. George Williamson Smith. The Rev. Edwin B. Rice. 

The Rev. William M. Bottome. 
Interior of Grace Church, 1903-1910. 

The Right Rev. Frederick Burgess, Bishop of Long Island. 
The Napier, Johnson and Cogswell Memorials. The Denton and 

Stocking Memorials. The Sayres Memorial. 
The Rev. Arthur Sloan. 
Grace Memorial House, 1913. 
The Rev. Rockland Tyng Homans. 
Photos of The Register of Thomas Poyer, The Book of Burials, 

Inscription. 



PREFACE 

This book is written with the conviction that the per- 
sonal and dramatic elements of history are as important 
as the principles which are motives to its development. In 
moral and social progress men and women become the 
visible actors and representatives of passions and truths 
that lead to the self-denials and deeds which ennoble the 
life of a community or nation. 

Church associations and movements are interesting and 
stimulating to succeeding generations in the measure that 
individuals stand out in the incidents and results that 
make up history. 

Therefore this effort to promote loyalty to the past of 
Grace Church aims to preserve to another century the 
memorials of more than two hundred years of human and 
Christian activity and beneficence. Much more has been 
set aside than has been presented here, to show the force 
of Church ideals and conflicting principles and passions. 
They have been judged with calmness and impartiality. 
As such I hope the treatment of individuals and measures 
may be accepted by my readers. 

Special acknowledgment of large and valuable collec- 
tions of material for history made by Mr. H. Onderdonk, 
Jr., has been made elsewhere in the text. For the genea- 
logical information which he gathered before it perished 
by the hand of time, he has put future generations in debt. 
The records of his work are here preserved. 



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The Venerable Society, in London, gave access to all 
their archives, with a courtesy which the author here 
gratefully acknowledges. The New York State Docu- 
mentary History and the publications of the New York 
Historical Society have made possible the collation of 
many papers and facts to illumine and strengthen the 
statements of this narrative. The Vestry of Grace Church 
have most kindly offered their records to complete and 
make it authentic. 

There are references in the text to other sources of in- 
formation which have been consulted. The author asks 
only that charitable judgment which must be allowed 
where there is such an amount of detail, covering nearly 
three centuries. 

To the publishers who have not spared diligent effort 
and expense in the illustration and making of the book, 
and for the encouragement by those who have aided in 
its publication by advance subscriptions, and to the faith- 
ful copyists, the author is deeply grateful. 



HORATIO OLIVER LADD. 



Richmond Hill, N. Y., 
May 1, 1914. 



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I 

THE DUTCH COLONIAL PERIOD 



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GRACE CHURCH, JAMAICA 

CHAPTER I. 
The History of Her Origin — The Dutch Colonial Period. 

AT the western end of what is now Long Island 
mingle the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the 
Highlands of New York, and the great Sound 
into which the Valleys of Connecticut and Rhode Island 
and Massachusetts have been drained. 

On the same shore was early cast the confluence of 
Dutch and English and French navigators and settlers of 
the Old World. 

Nearly a hundred years before the Church of England 
worship was begun in Jamaica, Henry Hudson, an Eng- 
lishman in the employ of the Hudson Bay Company of 
Holland, attempted, in the Half Moon, a two-masted sail- 
ing vessel manned by twenty Dutch and English sailors, 
to enter the Rockaway inlet to Jamaica Bay. Wind and 
tide and threatening breakers prevented, and these Euro- 
peans passed further west and sailed up the "Narrows" 
of what is now New York Bay. 

This voyage gave the first possession of what is now 
New York to the Dutch, but during that century Dutch 
and English and French people occupied these island 
shores, which their representatives under the brave Hud- 
son's command had opened up to civilization and the 
Christian religion. 

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14 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

The West India Company soon made profitable trade 
with natives and settlers. They called the province New 
Netherland. It was governed by civil and military officers 
under oath of obedience to the States General. The grant 
of the English King to the Colony of Virginia including 
this part of the Atlantic coast did not establish a title to 
it. Governor Bradford of the Plymouth Colony, in his 
correspondence with Governor Minuit, when protesting 
that the Dutch were settled within the limits of the grants 
made to the Virginia Colony, received the spirited reply 
''the Dutch settlers derived their authority from the States 
of Holland and will defend it."* The protest of the Puri- 
tans of New England against the Hollanders' right to settle 
in New Netherland was void of truth and ineffective. The 
Puritans themselves had sought the protection of the 
Prince of Orange and the States General in their expedi- 
tions to these shores, asking that they might come as 
Dutch subjects. The Hollanders were in possession of 
Manhattan, and their claims to Long Island were as 
sturdily maintained. 

The region of New York and Maryland, which was oc- 
cupied by prosperous Dutch settlements in 1625 and fol- 
lowing years, was included in the possessions of Holland 
by right of discovery. They had fortified places on the 
Hudson River, like New York and Albany, and were strong 
in their possession of that river. A treaty of alliance was 
made later on between Charles I and Holland under which 
Holland transferred her authority over New Netherland 
to the English Crown. 

The English Colonies, in a spirit which still survives in 
the blood, asserted their right to dispose of all North 

*History of the American People by Woodrow Wilson. 



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America. William Alexander, the first Lord Stirling, pos- 
sessed by a grant from James VI, as represented by his 
biographer, three separate tracts of land within the original 
grant to the Colony of Virginia. These grants covered the 
immense country of Nova Scotia, the whole extent of 
Long Island and the country of St. Croix, or Sagadahock, 
adjoining Nova Scotia, and extending west to the Kenne- 
bec River, which was a large part of the territory subse- 
quently belonging to the State of Maine. 

About the year 1635 Charles I had requested the direct- 
ors of the Plymouth Colony to issue a patent for these 
possessions, which was supposed to be included in the 
Charter to that Colony out of the possessions of the super- 
seded Virginia Colony. This patent was given to the Earl 
of Stirling in 1637. He was thus made the largest landed 
proprietor in America. He had maintained a thriving col- 
ony of several thousand families through the whole extent 
of Long Island, which was governed by his deputy. He 
died in 1640, and about the year 1662, the second Earl of 
Stirling conveyed his title to Long Island for a considera- 
tion of three hundred pounds per annum. This was in 
order to confirm the title of the Duke of York, (afterwards 
James II of England) which he then held by a grant from 
the Crown.* 

Armed with this title a colony from Lynn, Massachu- 
setts, settled at Cow Bay, within the present limits of 
Queens County. This was the first invasion. A few peo- 
ple sided with them, but the settlement was soon broken up. 



*The life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, by his grand- 
son, William Alexander Duer, LL. D., published by the New 
Jersey Society, 1847. 



16 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 




Thos. Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury 



The Dutch Colonial Period. 



The Dutch had secured in 1639, by purchase from the 
Indians, an equitable title to the land in Queens County, in 
which was reserved to the Indians the rights of hunting 
and planting. Governor Kieft was so liberal towards set- 
tlers that conflicts ceased, and those who chafed at the 
restrictions and persecutions of the Puritan Government 
in New England again came hither and lived in peace with 
the Dutch farmers. These later settlers were largely loyal 
to the Church of England in their faith. 



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As early as 1645, there was more contention in Flushing 
by the heirs of Lord Stirling. Their agent was arrested 
and sent to Holland. A non-conformist minister of the 
Church of England, the Rev. Francis Doughty, made trou- 
ble in Newtown and Flushing by stirring up opposition to 
Dutch rule. But Jamaica attracted her English inhabi- 
tants from Independents further west on the island. Here 
were gathered Dutch, English, Presbyterians and adherents 
to the Church of England. A ship-load of members of the 
Society of Friends also distributed themselves over Jamaica 
and Flushing. The Dutch were opposed to their doctrines 
and practices, but they held meetings in Jamaica in the 
houses of those who would shelter them. Henry Town- 
send was arrested and banished by the authorities for this 
oflfense. Fines and confiscations were threatened to those 
who brought Friends to these shores or harbored them in 
their homes for a single night. Twenty-eight freeholders 
of Flushing and Jamaica braved the proclamation and 
wrath of Governor Stuyvesant, declaring they should be 
glad to see anything of God in either Presbyterian, Inde- 
pendent, Baptist or Quaker, and that they would be true 
to the law of Church and State, which was to do good unto 
all men as they desired all men to do unto them. 

For this oflfense the magistrates and signers were ar- 
rested, but only the Sheriflf among them all suflfered pen- 
alties, being degraded from office and sentenced to pay a 
fine of 200 guilders or to be banished. 

(1662-1665.) A small frame building erected by vote 
of a town meeting was sufficient for all religious assemblies 
and political meetings. 

The persecutions of the Quakers continued, but they 
flourished more and more. Some of them became fanatics 



18 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

in opposing the authorities, but most of these Friends pre- 
vailed over their foes by good conduct, and under Charles 
il's rule these people and their religion were protected, and 
they dwelt in peace with their neighbors. 

The treaty of 1650 between New Netherland and the 
Colonies of New Haven and Connecticut gave all of Long 
Island east of Oyster Bay and that part of the main land 
east of Greenwich Bay to the United Colonies. The Eng- 
lish settlers, however, encroached upon what was reserved 
in this treaty in Long Island. Passing their boundary line, 
they came to the western extremity. This was the original 
movement of Independents into Hempstead, Middleburgh, 
and Jamaica, and these towns and Flushing, in order to 
make their independence of the Dutch complete, changed 
their names. Gemego, the original name of Jamaica, be- 
came CrafFord, and Flushing was called Newarke, New- 
town or Middleburgh was changed to the name of Hast- 
ings. With Hempstead and Gravesend these towns united 
for protection and civic purposes under a President, Cap- 
tain John Scott, who was an English adventurer and 
formerly an officer in the army of Charles I. They were 
thus temporarily organized in the expectation that Charles 
II should establish a government over them. Both the 
Connecticut and Dutch authorities were displeased, and 
Scott was brought to trial at Hartford, Connecticut. The 
residents of Flushing testified that he had acted according 
to the will of the people, but Captain Scott was removed, 
and the authority of the General Assembly of Connecti- 
cut was established over these towns. 

(1664.) At the close of this Dutch Colonial period of 
the history of the towns of Jamaica and Flushing and New- 
town, we find the people out of whom Grace Church 



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sprang living in plain but comfortable conditions. The 
occupation of farming was most frequent. Their homes 
were suited to a farmer's wants. The floors were sprinkled 
with sand, the plates and dishes were of pewter, and some- 
times of silver, the chairs and settees had high backs, and, 
if cushioned, were studded with brass nails. Their ser- 
vants were kindly treated, being Indian or negro slaves. 
Marriages could only be performed under the Governor's 
license. Their funerals were conducted with great for- 
mality; badges were provided to be used in the processions,, 
and feasts with liquors followed them. Sunday afternoon 
visiting was common. Christmas and New Year's Day 
were celebrated with noise and revelry, and Easter week 
was given up to joyous festivities. Trade was made by 
barter, and Indian wampum was the principal money in 
circulation. Punishments of crime were by whipping, 
branding or hanging. 

As Jamaica is now a part of the Greater New York, the 
contemporary conditions of what is now Manhattan Bor- 
ough will give us an understanding of the difficulties and 
aids which were to be expected by the first ministers of the 
Church of England in what had been a Dutch Colony. 
New Amsterdam, as New York was named and as it ap- 
peared under Peter Stuyvesant, was built on the triangular 
point of the island of Manhattan between the two rivers, 
with an embankment surmounted with wood on the land 
side running across the island, where Wall Street now is 
seen. The houses were mostly of wood, a few of stone, 
built with low sloping roofs and their gable ends upon the 
irregular streets. The chimneys built of brick imported 
from Holland were on the outside of the houses. There 
were at first about one hundred houses, but under Stuy- 
vesant's administration a brick yard was started, and the 



20 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

town had taken on a more substantial and regular look, but 
the ample gardens and fruit trees were visible among the 
houses. There was a Stadt Huys and a Debtors' Prison. 
There was a Dutch stone church within the fort where one 
of the two literary characters of New York, Jacob Steen- 
dam and Nicasius De Stille, was married to Tryntie Crove- 
gers. This was a great occasion in Stuyvesant's official 
career, for Stille was his Councillor and a widower, with a 
family whose social connections brought a characteristic 
throng of friends to the wedding, in garb betokening their 
wealth. 

The people of Amsterdam were as now a motley collec- 
tion of Dutch burghers and foreigners. The negroes, of 
whom there were many, were mostly slaves. The appear- 
ance of a church congregation on the wedding day of De 
Stille and his bride, who were of the rich and literary circles 
of the town, was not unlike a modern wedding in Fifth 
Avenue, except in the style of garments.* 

"Into the church went the friends, women, some with 
petticoats of red cloth, some with skirts of blue or purple 
silk set off with rare lace, all with silken hoods over much 
befrizzled hair, and their fingers covered with glittering 
rings, and with great lockets of gold on their bosoms. Each 
had a Bible fastened to her girdle by links of gold — not the 
plain, strongly bound Bibles used by Jacob Steendam and 
his friends, but elaborately wrought in silver, with golden 
clasps. The men were just as gaily dressed as the women, 
for they wore long coats adorned with shining buttons and 
pockets trimmed with lace and colored waistcoats, knee 
breeches of velvet, silk stockings and low shoes set off by 
silver buckles. Outside the fort among the townspeople 



♦Literary New York, Hemstreet. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 21 

of lower degree it was, too, quite a holiday. Men with 
coarse frocks and leather aprons, women in homespun 
gowns, turbaned negresses, swarthy negro slaves, dusky 
Indians— all made merry in their several ways, as though 
glad of an excuse. And the motley throng outside the fort 
and the elegant gathering within all made way for the 
wrinkled little bell-ringer, who carried the cushions from 
the Stadt Huys for the burgomasters and the schepens, 
who insisted on every bit of their dignity, come what would 
on this day or on any other."* 

♦Literary New York. 



II 

THE ENGLISH COLONIAL PERIOD 



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CHAPTER II. 
The Church of England in Queens County. 

A white thread of Church of England life and authority 
runs through the weaving of the history of Queens County 
for thirty years before her name was clearly written on 
the religious characters and works which began with her 
organization in the year which closed the seventeenth 
century. 

The transference of government from the Dutch to the 
English in 1664 brought New Netherland under the control 
of James, the Duke of York, to whom King Charles II had 
given a patent. New Amsterdam was surrendered to an 
English fleet Sept. 8, and its name changed to New York. 
Governor Nichols ruled in the place of Governor Stuy- 
vesant, who went to Holland, but having there made his 
report, returned to live a few years in New York on his 
farm, where he was buried beneath a chapel which after- 
wards became St. Mark's Church. What now constitutes 
the boroughs of Richmond, the Bronx and Queens, became 
the county of Yorkshire, and Queens County, except New- 
town, became the North Riding. 

(1664.) An assembly of delegates met at Hempstead 
the same year to make laws for Yorkshire, known as the 
Duke's Laws. These laws did not establish the Church 
of England in the Province, but they required that every 
town should build and maintain a church. No minister 
was allowed to officiate who had not received ordination, 
either from some Protestant Bishop or minister within his 



26 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Majesty's domain or within the dominion of some foreign 
prince of the Reformed Religion. Two overseers in each 
town were to be chosen to make the rate of assessment for 
the support of the church and clergymen. 

The people of Queens County were dissatisfied with 
these laws, and because they made no provision for a rep- 
resentative form of government dissensions arose. The 
inhabitants were arrested and fined for uttering seditious 
language. Governor Nichols reproved them in person 
during his official visits. Under the succeeding adminis- 
tration of Governor Lovelace the same agitations for rep- 
resentation broke out. 

(1664.) The Hollanders were at the time of the surren- 
der of Manhattan Island to the English maintaining two 
churches on Long Island, one at Flatbush and one at 
Brooklyn. As their influence diminished under English 
rule they began to make more settlements on the western 
end of Long Island. 

"The language of Holland was generally spoken; the 
architecture of Holland was reproduced in the construction 
of the houses; the steady industry and thorough agricul- 
tural methods of Holland were applied to the broad smooth 
lands; and the social and domestic customs of the old coun- 
try were still preserved under the quiet roofs of our earlier 
Long Island homes."* 

As early as 1656 land was purchased of the Rockaway 
Indians for settlement in Jamaica, from whom the name 
of Gemego or Jameco was derived, and which prevailed 
instead of the name of Rusdorp, which the Dutch govern- 



*J. G. Van Slyke Historical Discourse, 1876. The Reformed 
Ciiurch, Jamaica. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 27 

ment assigned to it. On Aug. 30th, 1663, it was voted, 
and it was agreed by tlie town, that ''a meeting house shall 
be built by the town, 26 feet square." This was erected, 
and the worshippers were called to it by the beating of a 
drum. The services were only occasional in this the first 
town church, and the organization of a Dutch church is 
placed in the year of the first recorded baptism June 1, 
1702. Religious dissensions among the Dutch families of 
Queens County caused some to enter into the communion 
of the Episcopal Church, the adherents of which completed 
the second town church by their aid. The Dutch Consist- 
ory, in 1715, built their own church edifice for all their 
people in Queens County, having become happily at peace 
with one another. 

(1672.) The war between England and Holland 
brought New York and the eastern towns of Long Island 
again under Dutch rule for a year, and a Dutch Reformed 
Church was established in Flushing, but that village had no 
resident minister. But in a year, through the declaration 
of peace. Major Andros was appointed by the Duke of 
York Governor of New York, and the English were ever 
afterwards in permanent possession of the east end of the 
Province. 

(1683, Oct. 17.) Under the administration of Andros 
the first representative body in the Province of New York 
held its first meeting. There were eighteen freeholders of 
the Province in this General Assembly. They divided 
Yorkshire into three Counties, Kings, Queens and Suffolk, 
establishing their present County lines except as affected 
by the formation of Nassau County. 



28 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

(1685.) When the Duke of York became King James 
II and New York a royal Province, the General Assembly 
was abolished and James was proclaimed Sovereign of the 
Province. This seriously affected church movements, 
which were made under the representative government. 
In 1862 the Presbyterian Church was existing in Jamaica 
and public worship established, but no church was built. 
There were Church of England people in Jamaica, New- 
town and Flushing at this time, and Dutch Reformed and 
Friends in each of these townships, but none of these had 
erected places of worship except the Dutch in Jamaica. 
The Province of New York was under the supervision of 
the Committee on Foreign Plantations in King James' 
Government. By royal authority new instructions were 
issued to Governor Dungan of New York, which brought 
the Church of England into prominence. These instruc- 
tions gave the Church of England the same position in 
New York that it had always occupied in the Mother 
Country. They were as follows: "Ye shall take special 
care that God Almighty be devoutly and duly served 
throughout your government: the Book of Common 
Prayer as it is now established read each Sunday and holi- 
day, and the Blessed Sacrament administered according to 
the rites of the Church of England * * * that no min- 
ister be preferred by you to any ecclesiastical benefices in 
that Province, without a certificate from the most Rever- 
end, the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, of his being con- 
formable to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of 
England, and of good life and conversation." (Doc. Ill, 
36,372.) 

Thus the Church of England became the established 
church of the Province; but also, by further provision in 



OF GRACE CHURCH 29 

these instructions to the Governor, liberty of conscience 
and religion was given to persons of all creeds. The 
Governor was directed ''to permit all persons of what 
religion so ever quietly to inhabit within your government 
without giving them any disturbance or disquiet whatever 
for or by reason of their differing opinions in matters of 
religion. Provided they give noe disturbance to the public 
peace, nor doe disquiet others in the exercise of their re- 
ligion." (Doc. Ill, 218, 359, 373, vid Waller's History of 
Flushing, pp. 79, 80.) 

Under James II all New England, New York and New 
Jersey were included in the administration of Governor 
Edmund Andros, who was assisted by a council of forty- 
two appointed by the King from the several Colonies. The 
Governor and seven members of the Council could at any 
time make laws. But in the two years during which this 
government continued no further mention is made of the 
authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury or of the 
Bishop of London. 

(1689.) The Colonies rebelled against Governor 
Andros when William, Prince of Orange, and Mary were 
proclaimed King and Queen of England. The towns of 
Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown petitioned 
for a new Governor, and were delivered from the oppres- 
sion of those who had usurped the authority of William 
and Mary, who, after the arrival of the new Governor, 
were convicted of treason and murder, and their leade! 
executed. 

The Quakers built the first meeting house in Flushing 
in 1694, where the only stated religious services in any of 
these towns up to this time were held. 



30 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

( 1 693. ) There was so much neglect of religion in these 
towns of Long Island, and so much laxity of morals as to 
compel the notice of Governor Fletcher of New York. In 
an address, he said: 'i have the power of collating or 
suspending any minister, and I will take care that neither 
heresy, sedition or rebellion be preached, nor vice and pro- 
fanity encouraged. It is my endeavor to lead a pious, 
virtuous life and to give a good example." This Governor 
compelled the Assembly to adopt an act ''for settling ye 
ministry." It prohibited profaneness, ordered that two 
Protestant ministers should be sent to Queens County- 
one to have the care of Jamaica and adjacent towns — and 
levied an assessment of £60 each year in country produce, 
at money price, to pay the minister's salary. Ten vestry- 
men and two church wardens were to be elected and the 
parish tax rigidly enforced. 

(1693.) The Church of England idea of worship was 
thus made prominent. Yet these efforts of Governor 
Fletcher were apparently ineffectual, for his ministerial 
act was ridiculed, and unobserved. But they led to some 
action in Jamaica towards building a church. 

(1694.) This was the beginning, three years before 
Trinity Church of New York was incorporated, of a con- 
troversy which lasted twenty-six years, and its bitter flavor 
remained in the community a hundred years longer. 

(1697-98.) A town meeting was called to see about 
building a meeting house. A committee was appointed to 
solicit and gather material, while even yet the site was 
not determined, but ordered to be located in the highway. 
A year after it was voted to erect a church or meeting 
house, and that a committee should canvass the town for 



OF GRACE CHURCH 31 

voluntary offerings to build the church. In a somewhat 
contentious spirit others got subscriptions and material 
enough to put up the building three feet from the ground 
and then stopped. 

In 1698 the population of Flushing was 530 whites and 
130 negroes, and that of Jamaica was about the same. 

(1699, May 16.) The Assembly Church Building Act 
of the next year made it possible to finish the building by 
assessments and compulsory payment of these, by those 
who were of all religious faiths and preferences. 

There now were many dissenters who, being forced to 
pay rates for the religious services, sided with those who 
held that a maxim of English law was applicable in 
Jamaica. All meeting houses raised by public tax become 
vested in the ministry established by law, and so of all 
lands and glebes set aside by public town meetings. Every 
church of common right is entitled to a house and glebe; 
and they belong to the Rector, ex officio. 

This church had been largely built by private subscrip- 
tions, and as those who were elected under the Act requir- 
ing wardens and vestryment to be elected were in a 
majority Presbyterians, they raised an issue with the 
Church of England people in Jamaica. 

( 1 699. ) This was the beginning of the united action of 
Church of England people in Jamaica.* They claimed the 
exclusive use of the building erected, and yet had no regu- 
lar minister. The Presbyterians employed the Rev. John 
Hubbard, who was ordained in 1700. and was strongly 



*Doc. Hist., Ill, 244. 



32 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

opposed to Church of England worship, to hold service in 
the Church, and he was called to be Rector in February 
1702, by the vestry. 

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign 
parts had resolved not to obtrude the Episcopal service 
upon the Colonists against their wishes. They did not 
therefore appoint missionaries until applications were 
made by the Colonists for ministers of the Church of 
England, nor until they were assured that adequate means 
would be provided for their comfort and support. 

As soon as the formation of the Society was known, 
applications for missionaries were received from various 
parts of America. It became their duty to send Episcopal 
clergymen to the Colonies. They felt an awful responsi- 
bility resting upon them. Learning, diligence, piety, zeal 
and discretion were deemed indispensable qualifications in 
these missionaries. They determined therefore that none 
should be employed unless they produced satisfactory tes- 
timonials of their "temper and prudence, their learning 
and sober conversation, their zeal for the Christian religion, 
their affection to the Government, and conformity to the 
doctrine and discipline of the Church of England," and as 
an additional security their "testimonials were to be signed 
by their respective diocesans." 

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel was spe- 
cially charged with the religious instruction of the British 
Colonies in America and the West Indies, while the Society 
for Promoting of Christian Knowledge provided for the 
spiritual wants of England and other parts of the British 
Empire. 



Ill 

PERIOD OF THE COLONIAL 
MISSIONARIES— 1700-1770 




Queen's Arms 




Rev. Thomas P()V!-:k. 





Rev. James H()NE^■MA^•, 



Rev. Thomas Bkav. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 35 



CHAPTER III. 

The Needs of the American Colonies, and the Response 

to Their Call. 

The English Colonies in America at the close of the sev- 
enteenth century showed the sad effects of the political 
and religious dissensions of Great Britain. But there was 
wise forethought of the religious needs of the Colonies, 
and one of the first far-reaching etTorts to check and re- 
move from them the prevailing infidelity and immorality 
was the founding at Oxford of two fellowships between 
1660 and 1670. These were to be held by persons in holy 
orders "who should be willing to take upon them the care 
of souls in foreign plantations." 

In the same period the Boyle lectureship was established, 
to show to all succeeding generations the great duty of 
converting infidels to the faith of Christ. 

By the Bishop of London Commissary Blair was sent to 
Virginia in 1685, and Dr. Thomas Bray to Maryland in 
1700. Dr. Blair established the College of William and 
Mary, and Dr. Bray originated two societies which he suc- 
ceeded by great energy and wisdom in establishing before 
he set sail, March, 1700, for America. These were the 
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and the 
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign 
Parts. 

Dr. Bray enlisted many great names in the English 
Church, both of the laity and clergy in the formation of the 
latter Society, which was to supply missionaries to Amer- 



36 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

ica and many other parts of the world. It was duly incor- 
porated and held its first meeting in June, 1701, with the 
Archbishop of Canterbury as President. Bishops Bever- 
idge, Archbishops Wake and Sharp, Bishops Gibson and 
Berkeley, who were some of its distinguished supporters, 
evoked by their appeals and personal influence funds from 
every quarter. It was time to reform the English Colonies 
in America, in which Bishop Berkeley declared, twenty- 
five years later, there was but little sense of religion and a 
most notorious corruption of manners. 

There were in all North America but 50 clergy and 
43,800 members of the Church of England. In the Prov- 
ince of New York there were 30,000 souls, of whom about 
1,200 attended church and 45o were communicants at the 
services. 

If the testimony of a violent opposer of the Church of 
England as to the state of the Colonies is of any added 
value, we may recall what Revd. Cotton Mather said of 
one of the New England Colonies in 1695, "a Colluvies 
of Antinomians, Familists, Anabaptists, Anti-Sabbatarians, 
Armenians, Socinians, Quakers, Ranters and everything 
but Roman Catholics and true Christians, bona terra mala 
gens, a good land, but a bad lot." 

Such were the conditions to which the missionaries of 
the Venerable Society addressed themselves at the begin- 
ning of the eighteenth century. They were fit men for 
self-denying work. Some of them itinerated, some settled 
down in districts and established missions around them, 
as at the present day. 

Six of these missionaries in the first five years were sent 
to the Province of New York, where the Legislature had 
already authorized an appointment of this number of min- 



OF GRACE CHURCH 37 

isters. New York was selected for the first missions at the 
suggestion of Mr. Vesey, who had been a lay reader of 
services in Hempstead in 1695, and had gone to England 
for ordination. 

Very important to the success of the movement had been 
the founding of Trinity Church in New York City in 1696. 
Its endowment by Queen Anne with the Church farm, 
which was composed of the Annetje Jans and the Duke's 
farm, and subsequently became of such immense value in 
the heart of the City of New York, was the stay afterwards 
of many a Church of England organization besides the 
Churches of Queens County, Grace Church in Jamaica, 
St. George's in Flushing, St. James' in Newtown, and St. 
George's of Hempstead, which are all linked with the 
memory of its benefactions and endowments. 

The first specific local appointment by the Society was 
made to Jamaica, Long Island, March 20, 1702, at the 
written request of prominent churchmen in Jamaica, en- 
dorsed by others in New York City. 

Of the seven men who came to Jamaica and other towns 
from the Society before 1 704, Messrs. Gordon, Keith, Bar- 
tow, Honeyman, and Urquehart, McKenzie, and Muirson, 
Lord Cornbury, in 1705, wrote concerning their charac- 
ters and labors: 'They have behaved themselves with great 
zeal, exemplary piety and unwearied dihgence in discharge 
of their duty in their several parishes." 

Col. Heathecote, afterwards the most distinguished citi- 
zen of New York as Mayor, Vestryman of Trinity Church, 
Commander of the Colonial forces, and Receiver General 
of the Customs in North America, reported the same year 
to the Society: 



38 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

"1 must do all the gentlemen that justice, which you 
have sent to this province, as to declare that a better clergy 
were never in any place, there being not one among them 
that has the least blame or blemish as to his life or con- 
versation." 

The Church was rooted strongly in the places where it 
had been planted by the Society, but so great was the op- 
position, political and sectarian, to her progress that even 
as late as 1745, New York Colony had but 22 Episcopal 
Churches, while there was but one Episcopal Church in 
Boston and one in Philadelphia. |/| 

Yet the missionaries of the Society sought in an orderly 
way to establish and uphold a conservative piety. There 
was a convention of the Anglican Church in New York, 
about 1705, which was called by Governor Nichols of Vir- 
ginia at the request of Dr. Bray, Commissary. It was 
composed of seven ministers only; one of them, Rev. John 
Bartow, represented Queens County. The convention 
was continued in session for a week, and devised measures 
for the extension of the Gospel by Episcopal services. It 
was proposed that a Suffragan Bishop be sent out from 
England, and the convention prepared and sent to England 
a statement of the necessity of this measure. The Lord 
Bishop of London, in 1 707, wrote in approval, giving his 
reasons for the appointment of a Suffragan instead of an 
absolute Bishop. But this wise proposal from America 
was treated with indifference by those in political power, 
who only could put in effect the action of the Church 
authorities. | 

There was, however, an increased interest manifested 
after the convention by the churchmen of New York. 
Robert Livingstone, in 1703, sent a memorial to the 



OF GRACE CHURCH 39 

Society, asking for the appointment of six men of youth, 
learning and orthodoxy to go as missionaries to the Indians 
of New York, one to each of the Five Nations, and one to 
the River Indians. 

They took forethought also for education. It was pro- 
posed in 1703 to found a College. Col. Morris, Col. 
Heathecote, and Governor Cornbury were much inter- 
ested in the subject, and proposed that the farm of 32 
acres belonging to Trinity Church, which rented for only 
£36 per annum, be granted to the Society for this purpose. 
This movement culminated afterward in the founding of 
Kings, now Columbia University. 

The opposition to the Church of England culminated in 
Connecticut, when the standard works on English services 
were sent over by the Society for the Propagation of Chris- 
tian Knowledge to that Colony. 

Eight hundred volumes of these works were there dis- 
tributed. They awakened the students and officers of the 
only College in that Colony. They were eagerly read by 
the students of Yale. The President, Dr. Cutler, two of 
the tutors, Messrs. Johnson and Brown, in consequence 
of this enlightenment, abandoned their support from the 
College and sought ordination in England. 



40 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



CHAPTER IV. 

The Mission of the Reverend Patrick Gordon to Grace 

Church. 

The names of two clergymen who applied to the Society 
for the Propagation of the Gospel for appointment to the 
missionary work in America at the meeting in London on 
March 20, 1702, were George Keith and Patrick Gordon. 

Before the Society proceeded to appoint missionaries to 
particular places they resolved "to send a travelling mis- 
sionary or preacher who should travel over and preach in 
the several governments on the Continents of British 
America." By this means they hoped they should awaken 
the people into a sense of the duties of religion. Rev. 
George Keith, who had formerly resided in Pennsylvania, 
was selected to be the itinerant missionary through the 
continent with a yearly allowance of £200. Dr. Bray re- 
ported that the Lord Bishop of London had appointed Mr. 
Patrick Gordon a missionary to New York, and the Society 
resolved ''to make up the Queen's Bounty money £5o per 
annum, the first year and continue the same or more yearly 
as they shall see fitt according to the good behavior of the 
said Mr. Gordon." At the same meeting it was proposed, 
after this action upon Mr. Gordon's appointment by the 
Bishop of London, to send another missionary, Mr. John 
Forsseeil, to Staten Island. 

At their next meeting, March 27, 1702, it was ordered 
that the Treasurers ''do pay to Mr. Gordon the summ of 
£30, by way of advance out of his allowance from this 
Society." 



OF GRACE CHURCH 41 

So far the effort of this Scotch clergyman to accomplish 
a purpose worthy of his devotion seemed successful. But 
in the Society's records of a meeting three weeks after, 
April 1 7th, it is stated that a letter from Mr. Gordon was 
read. It is found in the volume of Letters of the S. P. G., 
Vol. I, III, April 17, 1702, and throws much light on a 
character of which little has been known. 

"Very Reverend : 

I am sorry to tell you that my voyage is to be marred at last, 
the York money is not to come. It is true Dr. Fall expects it 
every Post and it may possibly be a month before it comes. Had I 
not depended on it, I might have had money elsewhere, which I 
cannot now. Most certain it is, I can't go without it, and if it is 
not advanced by you (or) a member of the Corporation, I must 
give security for the two pounds already received, and lay aside 
thoughts of New York notwithstanding great charges already in 
fitting out and the small loss of time. I therefore desire that you'l 
lay this matter before the corporation, upon hearing of which I am 
persuaded they'l empower one of their number to make a present 
advance. 

"I might likewise complain of the Dilatory methods that are 
taken in advancing the Queens Bounty, notwithstanding I gott my 
Lord of London's letter to Mr. Sturt, and though he doubts of 
the money after the coronation, yet he gives me but small hopes of 
advancing it sometime next week. It is six to one if he does it, 
notwithstanding I have offered him a fair consideration. This is 
the melancholy prospect of my affairs. It lyes in the breast of the 
corporation to give them another face, and I hope they will do it. 
I'll wait for you at St. Cecilia's Coffee House, where I shall be 
glad to see you as soon as the meeting is over. 

P. Gordon. 

To the Very Reverend Dr. Bray. 



42 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

After hearing this letter the Society "ordered" that the 
said Mr. Gordon ''do immediately attend the Society." 

Mr. Gordon was called in and heard as to the subject of 
the letter and then withdrew. The Society then took ac- 
tion and resolved "that forasmuch as it does appear to this 
Society that the said Mr. Gordon is in danger of losing his 
passage to the West Indies for want of twenty pounds, the 
Queen's Bounty money, as also of fifty pounds more 
which was to have been advanced to him on account of his 
voyage by some gentlemen at York, this Society for the 
aforesaid reasons will immediately pay him the said sum 
of fifty pounds on condition that the said Mr. Gordon do 
first procure sufficient security, that the said summe of 
fifty pounds shall be repaid within 2 months after the loan 
of it. And it is hereby further declared that a promise 
from his Grace, the Lord Archbishop of York, for the 
speedy payment of the same shall be understood to be 
sufficient security. The Committee reported also on Mr. 
Gordon's request that he might be furnished with books, 
and it was ordered that the summe of ten pounds be 
allowed the said Mr. Gordon, to be laid out in such books 
as are proper for him on this occasion."* 

The first meeting of the Society after receiving the 
Royal Charter from King William III was held on Friday, 
June 27, 1701, in the library of the Archbishop of York. 
The Bishops of London, the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop 
of Chichester and the Bishop of Gloucester, with noted 
clergymen and laymen, among whom are named Dr. 
White Kennett, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough; Dr. 
Stanhope, Dr. Bray, Sir John Chardin, Sir Richard Black- 



*Original Records of the S. P. G., in London. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 43 

more, Sir George Wheeler and Sergeant Hook. Mr. Mel- 
moth and Mr. Hodges were appointed Treasurers and Mr. 
John Chamberlane Secretary. Every month distinguished 
men were elected into the Society, and they became active 
in soliciting subscriptions to aid the Society's objects, 
especially from eminent bankers of the city of London, 
who traded in the plantations of North America. 

Meetings were held every month, and on the I9th of 
September, 1701, a memorial was read from Col. Morris 
on the sad state of religion in the Colonies of New York, 
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 

A similar account by Col. Dudley, Governor of New 
England, of the Enghsh plantations of North America was 
presented and read. In this it was stated that in New 
York there were 25,000 souls in twenty-five towns, in 
which there were about five Church of England ministers 
in fifteen English towns. Whatever others were to be 
found were Dutch and English Dissenters. 

Mr. George Keith gave an account of the state of 
Quakerdom in North America, and described the qualifi- 
cations that a North American missionary should possess, 
who should be sent out by the Society in the first year of 
its existence. 

''Such as go over into those parts for the propagation of 
the Gospel should be men of solidity and good experience, 
as well as otherwise qualified with good learning, and good 
natural parts, and especially exemplary in piety, and of a 
discreet zeal, humble and meek, able to endure the toil 
and fatigue they must expect to go through, both in mind 
and body, not raw young men, nor yet very old, whose 
Godly zeal to propagate true Christianity in life should 



44 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

be the great motive; for people generally of those parts 
are very sharp and observant, to notice both what is good 
or bad in those who converse among them." 

As it took three months to make the voyage to England, 
it could not have been long after this, that the Society 
received the petition of the Church of England people in 
Jamaica, for a missionary, and his support. Col. Morris 
writes that Mr. Gordon received the invitation of some of 
the best men in his parish to go there, and the Society had, 
at his appointment, specially designated him as missionary 
to Nassau Island, the eastern part of which was occupied 
by the townships of Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown, 
from which the call for a missionary had come to the 
Society. 

That Mr. Gordon was a man of such traits of character 
and piety and devotion as was indicated in the advice of 
Mr. Keith to them as to their appointees, is a reasonable 
inference beside the testimony of Col. Morris, which was 
founded on personal acquaintance with him, a few weeks 
after Mr. Gordon's appointment. 

It has not been possible so far to trace in any of the 
Society's records the personal history of Mr. Gordon. In 
his letter to Mr. John Chamberlane, Secretary, he writes 
that ''the person whom I expect will bring you this is my 
elder brother, lately come up from Scotland, and it's prob- 
able may make some stay in England. I take this oppor- 
tunity to introduce him to the benefitt of your acquaint- 
ance. My service to your father and all other good 
friends." This letter not only shows his relatives were 
resident in Scotland, but that Mr. Gordon had considerable 
acquaintance and experience in England, in a ministry 



OF GRACE CHURCH 45 

from which he proceeded to the new field for which he was 
thought to be eminently fitted. 

Mr. Gordon was delayed only a month longer in Eng- 
land. He was able to join a notable company that took 
passage with him on the ship Centurion, which sailed on 
April 23, 1702, from England, bound to Boston. Col. 
Morris and Col. Dudley were shipmates, and Rev. George 
Keith, who had started on his mission at large for the 
Society among the American Colonies. Rev. John Talbot 
was chaplain of the ship. 

The letters to the Society written by these gentlemen, 
after their arrival, are preserved in the annals of the 
Society. Those of Mr. Gordon and Colonel Morris are 
specially valuable as giving us an insight into the character 
of Mr. Gordon, in these last months of his life. Mr. Gor- 
don's has not before been published. It was found in 
Vol. I, No. XI, of the manuscript letters. 

Mr. Patrick Gordon to the Secretary: 

Boston, New England, 13 June, 1702. 
Worthy Sir: 

This comes to acquaint you of our safe arrival in this place. 
We had, blessed be God, an excellent passage being only five 
weeks from land to land, and above half that time either contrary 
winds or calms. Had the time of our passage been as many months 
as weeks, I might have reckoned it short, being so happy in the 
good company I came with. Thanks to Heaven we enjoyed per- 
fect health all the way except sea sickness, to which that worthy 
gentleman, Governor Dudley, and my fellow travellers, Col. Morris, 
were somewhat subject, during anything of rough weather. Honest 
Mr. Keith held out to a miracle and as for myself, I am a thorough 
paced seaman. Col. Morris, Mr. Keith and I do, (God wilHng) 
intend to sett out for Rhode Island a few days hence, providing 
that we find no vessel here that is shortly bound for New York. 



46 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

The ship that brings this letter to old England falls down from 
this place this forenoon, and therefore I have only time to tell you 
that Mr. Keith has found a very worthy Gentleman, Chaplain of 
the Centurion, to accompany him on his mission. The Gentleman's 
name is George Talbot, M. A., a person of very good parts and no 
worse man. I have personally known him for some years and can 
warrant what I say * * * 

I beg the prayers of the Corporation and am, worthy sir, 

Your Very Humble Servant, 

P. Gordon. 

(Letter, Vol. I, No. XI.) 

Of this voyage Mr. George Keith writes, more in detail, 
under nearly the same date, to the Secretary. 

Boston, 12 June, 1702. 
Worthy Sir: 

After signifying my christian respects to yourself this is to ac- 
quaint you with our good passage and safe arrival in Boston in 
New England the nth of this instant, having been but six weeks 
between our sailing from Cowes and our arrival at Marblehead, a 
good harbor about 20 miles from Boston. Our worthy friend. 
Governor Dudley, is well and I heard him say he never had a more 
comfortable passage. He was so very civil and kind to Mr. Gordon 
and me that he caused us both to eat at his table all the voyage, 
and his conversation was both pleasant and instructive, insomuch 
that the great cabin of the ship was like a Colledge for good dis- 
course both in matters theological and philosophical, and very cor- 
dially he joined with us daily in divine worship and I well under- 
stand that he purposeth to give all possible encouragement to the 
congregation of the Church of England in this place. 

Also Col. Morris was very civil and kind to us, and so was the 
Captain of the ship called the Centurion, and all the inferior offi- 
cers and all the mariners generally, and good order was kept in 



OF GRACE CHURCH 47 

the ship The seamen as well as officers joined devoutly with 

us in our daily prayers according to the Church of England and so 
did the other gentlemen that were passengers with us. 

GEORGE KEITH. 

The Commencement at Cambridge was near at hand, 
and Col. Morris induced Mr. Keith to remain in Boston 
before he began his travels westward with Mr. Talbot, who 
was appointed his associate and assistant Sept. 18, 1702, 
as recommended to the Society by Mr. Gordon. While 
Mr. Keith entered into the controversies which arose be- 
tween him and the Quakers with whom he had previously 
been connected, Mr. Gordon went on to New York, where 
he met the Rev. Mr. Vesey of Trinity Church, and from 
there came to Long Island and to Jamaica, in accordance 
with his appointment. 

The Rev. Mr. Keith reported to the Society on Nov. 29, 
1702, that ''many have been visited with great distempers 
in diverse parts which have proved mortal to many in the 
town of New York, where near 500 persons died in the 
space of three months, but now, thanks to God, the place 
is very healthful." 

The same month the town of Boston was reported to 
Mr. Keith to be "very sickly both of fevers and small pox, 
of both of which distempers many die." 

Mr. Gordon arrived in Boston in perfect health, as his 
correspondence indicates. It was either there or in New 
York that he was seized with the prevailing fever, which 
developed immediately on his arrival in Jamaica. He 
was, however, preparing to meet his people on the Sunday 
that followed his untimely death July 28, 1702. He had 
made a happy impression on those for whom he had left 



48 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

England, and was also fully prepared to minister in the 
offices of the Church of England, as the first missionary 
of the Society to New York. 

There are no records preserved of his last days, or of the 
sickness that ended his labors as a faithful and devoted 
servant of Jesus Christ. 

Happily for his memory, and the honor due to him for 
what he so zealously attempted for the people of Jamaica, 
a letter is preserved, written by Col. Lewis Morris of East 
Jersey to Mr. Archdeacon Beveridge, a month after his 
decease. 

(From ''Annals of the Society," Vol. I, Letter XLV.) 

East Jersey, 3 September, 1702. 
Reverend Sir: 

Mr. Gordon's abilities, sobriety and Prudence which gained him 
the good opinion of everybody acquainted with him, both of the 
Church and among the dissenters, gave me great hopes I should 
be able to transmit your reverence an account of the great progress 
he had made in his mission, but God who disposeth things wisely 
and best was pleased to take him away just as he was entering upon 
his charge. 

He went from New York with design to preach in his Parish, 
(at the invitation of some of the best men in it), took sick the day 
before he designed to preach and so continued till his death, which 
was in about eight days after. 

He was partly by force buried in a Dissenting Meeting House 
newly erected at Jamaica, the chief town of his parish. The people 
are very numerous there and some of them tainted with Independ- 
ency, but most of them fitt to receive any impression. If there is 
any good to be done here it must be by men of Learning, Sobriety 
and Prudence and not young, and to give good encouragement to 
such is cheap, for others will not serve but disserve the Church. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 49 

(Mr. Gordon was laid under the communion table in the Stone 
Church, July 28, 1702. When the building was taken down in 181 3, 
the ground underneath was thoroughly dug over, especially in front 
of the pulpit, and the remains of those who had been buried there 
were carefully gathered up, reverently placed in a box, and borne 
in a procession, headed by Jeffrey Smith, the Sexton, to the Village 
Cemetery, where they were re-interred. No stone marks the spot. 
— H. Onderdonk.) 

By the papers filed in the administration of his estate, he 
is named as ''late Chaplain of the Royal Navy" in the 
Province of New York. The inventory including bills 
and drafts amounted to £375, 12s., 4d. A long list of his 
books, by their titles, is also filed in the Surrogate's office, 
New York. 

As administration papers were also given to his brother, 
James Gordon, in England, by the Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, his personal effects, of which no trace is known, were 
probably returned to England. They constituted, as enu- 
merated, a complete outfit for a gentleman and clergyman 
of moderate means. 



50 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



CHAPTER V. 

The Beginning of Controversy — Temporary Ministries of 

Messrs. Bartow and Honeyman — The Rectorship of 

Rev. Mr. Urquhart. 

Fifty of the churchmen of Jamaica and vicinity sent a 
petition to Lord Cornbury to fill the vacancy occasioned 
t3y his death, and the Rev. Mr. Vesey of Trinity Church 
was directed by the Governor to supply them with a suit- 
able minister until one should be sent by the Society in 
England. 

Lord Cornbury at this time made a temporary residence 
in Jamaica, on account of the prevailing fever in New 
York. He summoned the vestry into council with him 
there. 

Meanwhile the Rev. John Bartow had been appointed, 
April 2, 1702, a missionary of the Society at a salary of 
£50. Sailing from Portsmouth, England, he arrived in 
New York Sept.' 29, 1702, after a voyage of eleven weeks. 
He came to Jamaica to present his credentials to Lord 
Cornbury. He was assigned to West Chester as his field 
of labor, but preached all the next summer at Jamaica, at 
his own charge and expense, alternating with West 
Chester. Mr. Bartow had been highly recommended to 
the Venerable Society, having been Vicar of Pamperford, 
Cambridge, and assistant in the Parishes of Lynton and 
Hadstock, England. 



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There was, on the first Sunday of Mr. Bartow's officiating 
at Jamaica, a serious disturbance and wrangle over the use 
and possession of the Stone Church. The Reverend Mr. 
Hubbard, a Presbyterian minister, held service in the morn- 
ing and excluded Mr. Bartow. In the afternoon, while the 
Episcopal service was in progress, the Presbyterians inter- 
rupted it and drew away part of the congregation to a 
meeting out doors. Mr. Bartow, however, finished the 
service and delivered the key to the Sheriflf. An appeal 
to Lord Cornbury decided it to belong to the established 
church of the Colony, having been built by public tax, and 
he summoned Mr. Hubbard and the head of the faction 
before him, and forbade him ever more to preach in that 
church. He also threatened them all with the penalty of 
the statute for " disturbing divine service," but upon their 
submission and promise of future quietness and peace, he 
pardoned the offense. 

This was the beginning of the controversy the develop- 
ment of which embittered the three following ministries 
and pastoral relations for a period of over thirty years. 

Rev. James Honeyman was commissioned by the Bishop 
of London to Jamaica, the Society having appointed him 
while a Chaplain in the Navy to serve in Jamaica. He 
arrived in Boston after a tedious voyage, and found that 
he had been preceded by a slanderous charge, from which 
he had to vindicate himself to Governor Cornbury. He 
began his labors in Jamaica after many trials of his spirit, 
from which he came out with a clear conscience. But he 
found in Jamaica a church building which was so far from 
being ornamental that he says, ''We have not those neces- 
sarys that are requisite to the Daily discharge of our 
offices, namely, neither Bible nor Prayer Book, no cloaths, 
neither for Pulpit nor Altar." 



52 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Yet he says, 'To this Parish belong two other towns, 
viz., New Town and Flushing, famous for being stocked 
with Quakers, whither I intend to go upon their meeting 
days on purpose to preach Lectures against their Errors." 

The bitter feeling which had been aroused by the oppo- 
sition to the Rev. Mr. Bartow when the church building, 
erected by taxes and subscriptions, had been occupied by 
the authority of Governor Cornbury, continued against 
Mr. Honeyman, who, supplying the church under the 
license and during the pleasure of Lord Cornbury, was' not 
able to remain three months in charge of these missions. 

Rev. Mr. Honeyman was sent to New England and took 
up a mission in Newport, where he continued to reside and 
gained eminent success in a long rectorship of forty-five 
years. 

He was one of the first to urge upon the Society the need 
of a Bishop in 1 709. He presented a memorial to Gover- 
nor Nicholson in 1714, on the religious condition of Rhode 
Island, the Establishment of Schools, and a proper encour- 
agement to the Clergy from the Civil Government where 
the population was hostile in great part to the Church, and 
he sent to England five years later a memorial of the 
frowns and discouragements to which they were subjected 
by the Government, when there was "only one baptized 
Christian in their whole Legislature." 

He sent an application to the Society for the establish- 
ment of a mission in Providence in 1732, where he had 
preached to such great numbers that they had to adjourn 
to the fields, and ten years later the first church with a 
missionary from the Society was built in that city. This 
Priest, the Rev. Mr. Pigot, became the adviser and helper 



OF GRACE CHURCH 53 

of President Johnson and other professors of Yale College 
when they turned to the Church. 

There was much activity among the Churchmen of New 
York and vicinity during the period of a year and a half 
which preceded the ministry of Rev. Mr. Urquhart at 
Jamaica, who was inducted July 27, 1704. 

A convention of the Anglican Church was held in New 
York in 1702. It was composed of seven members, all of 
whom were ministers of the Society. Grace Church was 
represented in this convention by Rev. John Bartow. The 
others were Reverends John Talbot, George Keith, Alex- 
ander innes, Edmund Mott, Evan Evans, and Mr. Vesey 
of Trinity Church. 

They continued for a week the sessions, where measures 
for the extension of Episcopal services were proposed and 
discussed, the importance of which was remarkably dem- 
onstrated in subsequent events. It was proposed that a 
Suffragan Bishop be sent out from England. A forcible 
statement of this was made and sent to England, the effect 
of which was weakened by political conditions then 
prevailing. 

The necessity of educational influences to strengthen the 
Church was made apparent, and the duty of reaching out 
to the Indian peoples, which had been one of the special 
objects of the founding of the Society in England. A 
memorial from the Churchmen in New York was received 
in 1703 by the Society, sent by Robert Livingston, Secre- 
tary of Indian affairs in the Province of New York, asking 
for the appointment of six men, ''of youth, learning and 
orthodoxy to go as missionaries to the Indians, one to each 
of the four nations and one to the River Indians, with two 



54 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

young attendants to learn the language and assist in the 
work, and that a house should be built for each minister 
at each of the Indian castles." 

It was proposed as early as 1 703 to found a College, in 
which Col. Morris, Col. Heathcote and Gov. Cornbury 
were much interested. The farm of 32 acres, belonging 
to Trinity Church, and which rented for only £35 per 
annum, was proposed to be granted to the Society for this 
purpose, as an appropriate foundation for the College. 
This was the Anneka Jans farm, first sold to Mr. Lovelace 
in 1670 by her heirs, which was nearly thirty years before 
Trinity Church was founded, and which, on Nov. 20, 
1705, became the possession of Trinity Church in fee by 
royal patent. Fifty years after this movement by Church- 
men culminated in the founding of Kings, now Columbia 
College. 

Governor Cornbury, on Oct. 5, 1704, addressed the 
Episcopal Clergy, assembled in New York, on the subject 
of education. He obtained from the Council the enact- 
ment of a law establishing a Latin Free School which was 
endowed with £50 per annum. 

Rev. Mr. Keith and Rev. Mr. Talbot, from 1702 to 1704, 
were holding services in New York, in Flushing, and 
Hempstead, and also going as far as Philadelphia in one 
direction, and Newport, Rhode Island, and Boston in the 
other, preparing the way for missionaries who were being 
sent out by the Society. It was at this time in December, 
1704, that Episcopal services were permanently estab- 
lished in Hempstead by the Rev. John Thomas, a mission- 
ary, about the time that Mr. Urquhart was inducted in his 
work at Jamaica. 



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Rev. William Urquhart was appointed by the Society to 
the uninviting charge, the Church of England in Jamaica, 
Newtown and Flushmg, when these communities, espe- 
cially that of Jamaica, were torn with religious jealousies 
and strife. The Presbyterians and Independents in Jamaica 
were contending for the possession of the church building; 
and the vestrymen were mostly of the hostile, rather than 
friendly part of the Churchmen of the township. The 
Dutch, who had sympathized with and aided the Church 
of England families, were organizing a church of their own 
faitn m Jamaica. The Quakers and Independents of 
Newtown and Flushing were not dominated by any de- 
cided Christian spirit, but had fallen into loose ways of 
Lvmg. There were but very few staunch Churchmen, the 
rest discredited their Church preferences. 

It was fortunate that Mr. Urquhart was vested with the 
authority ot the Governor and of the laws of the Province, 
passed in 1693 to 1699, which gave the Church of Eng- 
land a preference over all other churches, so that church 
property erected by public taxes was the property of the 
Church of England. This is plainly stated in the laws 
enacted in 1784 by which such preference and privileges 
were abrogated, abolished, rescinded and made void. 

The constitution of 1784 says: ''It nevertheless ordained 
that nothing in this constitution should be construed to 
affect any grant made by the King or his predecessors, or 
to annul any charters and bodies politic made by him or 
them prior to Oct. 14, 1775." 

Mr. Urquhart was, moreover, a Scotchman and a Chap- 
lain of the Royal Navy before he came to America, and 
was fitted by sturdy qualities and experience to deal with 
the contentious spirit and claims of those with whom he 



56 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

came to abide. He had to maintain his parochial rights, 
where malice instead of Christian love largely prevailed. 
His ministry began with the association of the Church 
people in Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown, which con- 
tinued from the year 1704 to 1797. During this century 
in which they represented the Church of England, the 
three churches, Grace, St. Georges and St. James, received 
the ministrations and guidance of five rectors, missionaries 
of the Society, by whom chiefly they were nourished and 
developed. 

The names of Urquhart, Poyer, Colgan, Seabury and 
Bloomer stand out among others, conspicuous for their 
strength, endurance, duration of their rectorships, and 
their ability and success in overcoming and harmonizing 
the discordant elements in their parishes. 

Mr. Urquhart found in Jamaica a tolerably good church 
of stone standing in the highway near the junction of what 
are now Jamaica and Union Avenues. Its furnishing was 
a book of Common Prayer and a cushion on the reading 
desk. 

The Church erected in 1699 stood in the middle of the 
main street, at the head of Union Hall Street, which was 
then and long afterwards called Meeting House Lane. 
This building was taken down in 1813, when the Presby- 
terian Church was built a short distance from it, to the 
northwest. After the War of the Revolution it was used 
as a Court House. The pulpit was on the north side with 
a sounding-board above it, and was opposite the gallery. 
There was no stove in the building. The women kept 
their hands and feet warm by portable stoves. The min- 
ister had gown and bands; the women sat in scarlet cloaks 
on chairs along the wide aisle, and on the sanded floors. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 57 

There was a house for the minister with an orchard on a 
glebe containing two hundred acres. From this with the 
stipend of the Society, contributed by the Yorkshire clergy, 
which was £50, and £15 for books, he had to gain his sup- 
port; for the parish revenues were mostly withheld from 
him by the contending vestrymen. In Newtown there 
was a chapel, and there was also a house available for his 
use. In Flushing most of the inhabitants were Quakers 
of a roving disposition. In all three places he found only 
unlearned men, and few of an exemplary life. Mr. Urqu- 
hart made his parochial residence in Jamaica, preaching 
two Sundays there, one Sunday in Newtown, and in Flush- 
ing, where also he lectured on one week day in a special 
effort to convert the people from their errors of faith and 
conduct. 

In Jamaica he found that the Wardens and Vestrymen 
would not qualify themselves according to law. The 
Parish was made up of Dissenters, and there were only 
twenty communicants in a place numbering 2,000 inhabi- 
tants. The Wardens refused to provide bread and wine 
for the Holy Sacrament, and to impose or submit to taxes 
for the minister's maintenance: Newtown clamored for a 
minister to settle among them. 

Mr. Urquhart, finding his expenses increasing, joined 
himself in marriage to a widow in Jamaica, of some prop- 
erty, Mrs. Mary Whitehead Burroughs, and endeavored to 
defeat those who would starve him out. He had the hon- 
esty and endurance of Scotch blood to sustain him; he was 
a good man and brave, industrious and without pretence 
or display. He won at last the estimation of the com- 
munity, and his congregations in the three communities 
increased, even if his trials did not lessen. Staunch Church- 



58 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

men, Colonels Heathcote and Morris, gave in their reports 
to the Society the strongest testimony to his Christian 
spirit and work. 

Mr. Urquhart bravely maintained in the face of bitter 
opposition the laws of the Church and of the Colony. As 
the inhabitants of Queens County were generally Inde- 
pendents, and kept themselves in close correspondence 
with New England, from which they had come to Long 
Island, they resented obligations under the laws of Eng- 
land for Church establishment. They claimed that cor- 
porations residing out of England were not bound to her 
laws of civil policy. 

Dissenting ministers from New England preached to 
them resistance to the public taxes by act of the General 
Assembly of New York in 1705. Yet at that time there 
was the closest relation between the State and the Puritan 
religion in Massachusetts and Connecticut, where vigor- 
ous enforcement of laws excluded any but the ruling sect 
from political affairs, or the free enjoyment of religion. 

Rev. Mr. Urquhart died Sept., 1709, without having 
settled this controversy by his remonstrances and argu- 
ments, which were justified by the existing laws. He left 
his family in straitened circumstances, as the effect not 
only of his native hospitality, but of those persecutions and 
losses to which he was subjected by the withholding of his 
dues from the people, in the first rectorship they were priv- 
ileged to have through the beneficence of the Missionary 
Society of the English Church. 

Col. Heathcote wrote to the Society Nov. 9, 1705: ''Mr. 
Urquhart, minister of Jamaica, has the most difficult task 
of any missionary in this Government * * * he has 



OF GRACE CHURCH 59 

not only the character of a good man, but of being extra- 
ordinarily industrious in the discharge of his duty, he has 
very little assistance in his parish except from those who 
have no interest with the people." 

Mr. Urquhart's reports speak of success in the conver- 
sion of some of his oppressors to close communion with 
the Church; of the prejudices of their education, as a mis- 
fortune to him; of the expenses of living, making the sup- 
port of the Venerable Society the chief reliance of their 
missionaries. 

He desired in his will that no great pomp or formality 
be used at "my funeral and that none except my wife be 
put in morning; that no rings, gloves or scarfs be given." 
He was buried, probably, beside Rev. Mr. Gordon, in front 
of the pulpit of the church. 

At the time that his ministry ended in Jamaica, the 
Colony of New York was reputed to be in a deplorable 
moral condition. So greatly had increased the profanity, 
drunkenness and immorality of the people that a special 
enactment was made by the Council to check and punish 
and repress the prevailing evils of society. 



60 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



CHAPTER VI. 

The Ministry of Rev. Thomas Poyer, 1710-1732. 

Rev. Thomas Foyer's ministry to the Church of England 
churches in Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown, from A. D. 
1710 to 1732, makes a chapter of grievances and perse- 
cutions, which display in contrast an activity and zeal for 
the Church, a maintenance of her rights, an unwearied 
patience in ignominy, losses and suflferings, and an un- 
tarnished Christian character. He was a grandson of Col. 
Poyer, who heroically defended Pembroke Castle, in 
Cromwell's time. Mr. Poyer was born in Wales. He was 
educated at Brasenose College in the University of Oxford. 
He was ordained as Deacon by the Bishop of Worcester, 
June 9, 1706, and as Priest, by the Bishop of St. Davids, 
on Sept. 21, 1706. He was a Curate at Haverford West, 
and Chaplain of H. M. S. Antelope, Feb. 21, 1709. He 
entered the service of the Venerable Society Sept. 27, 
1709, and was appointed to Jamaica, Long Island. He 
embarked with his family and household goods, Dec. 30, 
1 709. The fleet to which his ship belonged was delayed, 
passing from one harbor to another, and after a stormy 
voyage of thirteen weeks his ship. His Majesty's Frigate 
Herbert, was wrecked on the coast of Long Island, within 
one hundred miles of his destined parish. There was 
much damage done to his household goods in this ship- 
wreck. Here he came into an inheritance which no one 
would covet. The church glebe had been divided up by 
the Vestrymen, and sold in lots and parcels by their 




Till-: CiiALRii AND Tatkn ['kkskniki ) lo ( IkAii-: CiiL'Kcii i;\- 
Queen Anne's Bounty. 

( )ffering Plates i!V John Tuoup and teie Ladies' Missionary 

Aid Society. 



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usurped authority. His rightful parsonage was, through 
the action of the widow of Mr. Urquhart, in possession of 
the family of a dissenting ministry, and he was excluded 
from it throughout his rectorship. He found a few pro- 
fessed Churchmen with some members of the Dutch 
Church and a few other disaifected dissenters in his con- 
gregation in Jamaica, and from fifty to one hundred 
hearers in Newtown and Flushing. 

Although these churches had agreed with the Society on 
an annual stipend of £40, for six years he received no 
salary from them, and afterwards he could collect dues 
only by legal suits against his Vestrymen. Yet, according 
to the letters of Col. Heathcote to the Society, Mr. Foyer's 
parish contained 8,000 souls and was fifteen miles long 
and six and a half miles wide. At times when his salary 
was collected by a constable, he encountered a riot. Mr. 
Foyer had a suit at law against tenants of his parsonage 
lands and homestead, which the jury decided against him. 
Likewise suits for salary were defeated in the courts. Mr. 
Foyer was therefore obliged to live on the £5o per year 
allowed him by the Society, with occasional gifts from the 
same source in his greatest needs. 

In the first ten years he is proved to have been no idle 
sufferer in the labors of his ministry, nor unworthy of 
respect and confidence. He had gathered 400 hearers and 
sixty communicants in seven years. His adherents testi- 
fied to the Society that he had strained himself in travelling 
through his parish even beyond his strength, giving fre- 
quent lectures and catechisings on week days; but even 
then hospitality was denied him by his parishioners, who 
tried to tire him out by their ill usage. 



62 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Nevertheless Mr. Poyer sought to educate the community 
into a more intelligent and kindly spirit. He endeavored 
to establish a free school, and he maintained a parochial 
library for his people, from which he personally gave out 
books, which he preserved with great care. He freely dis- 
tributed charities from the sacramental oiferings and from 
his own scanty funds. His wife, Frances, who had left 
England with him, having in nine years, with great Chris- 
tian patience, endured the loss of two children^ and her 
husband's parochial trials, died, leaving two other children. 
Having for three years after her death, with other minis- 
ters of the Society, officiated at intervals and continuously 
for one year at Rye, he married, near the close of his ser- 
vices there, the widow of his predecessor, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Bridge, a daughter of a distinguished New England family. 
After her death, Mr. Poyer married for his third wife, a 
daughter of a wealthy parishioner of Jamaica, Justice 
Joseph Oldfield. Four children, Joseph, Thomas, John 
and Sarah, were born to them, and by this wife's inheri- 
tance, Mr. Poyer became proprietor of fifty acres of land 
in the village of Jamaica, and of enough other property to 
enable him to dispense Christian hospitality to a com- 
munity where he had been treated with neglect, injustice 
and contumely. 

Although his life in Jamaica was a troubled one, he main- 
tained his charge there, when inducements were frequently 
made by the church at Rye, and by offers of £400 and 
£500 salaries in the West Indies to leave the church over 
which he was thought fit to be appointed in so much 
trouble. 

By vote of a majority of the freeholders of Jamaica in 
town meeting Feb. 21, 1726-7, Mr. Poyer was expelled 



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from the stone church and their action confirmed by suit 
of the Presbyterians to whom it had been assigned by the 
same town meeting. So having lost parsonage and church, 
and compelled to hold services in the County Court House, 
and in public houses at his own expense in Flushing and 
Newtown, with the infirmities of age prematurely bearing 
him down, on June 16, 1731, he asked permission of the 
Venerable Society to quit his mission and return to his 
native land. But he died before his successor could be 
appointed, having fulfilled a ministry of twenty-five years. 

Mr. Foyer's rectorship of the three Churches was effec- 
tive in many ways. He could praise God that the Church 
was in a fairer way of flourishing than ever. Through his 
persistence in duty her sturdy character in a turbulent 
community had been maintained. His ministrations, 
under great difficulties, led to a settlement, however un- 
justly, of vexed questions at law, and to the building of 
a Church in Jamaica by Churchmen alone. The Churches 
in Newtown and Flushing had been held steadfast, and 
were more prosperous than in Jamaica. These communi- 
ties had become weary of disputes and bitterness which 
belied their Christian character and hindered their influ- 
ence for the Kingdom of Christ. They were prepared to 
receive a new rector with some wholesome regrets that 
might bear fruits unto righteousness. 

Mr. Foyer says of his ministry: "I have labored faith- 
fully in my Lord's vineyard and in my private advise from 
house to house as well as public discourses, I have exhorted 
them to faith in Christ and amendment of life, and to live 
in love. I give frequent lectures on week days; many 
live twelve miles distant, and I must keep two horses which 
is expensive and troublesome; and this wears out more 
clothes in one year than would last in three or four, if I 



64 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

did not have to ride. In Newtown and Flushing there is 
no convenience of private houses, so I have to use public 
ones at very great charge, for I usually bring some of my 
family with me. I have service every Lord's day, and on 
the days set apart by the Church. I have communion 
four or five times a year or oftener, as I have health, and 
seldom have over forty communicants at a time. I cate- 
chise and expound the catechism to all such as are sent to 
me, twice a week in the Church, and once a fortnight the 
year round at my house." 

Mr. Foyer's representations to the Venerable Society 
Nov. 9, 1722, and Oct. 16, 1724, give a pathetic summary 
of his afflictions: 

''I was so as to have little hopes of recovery; indeed I 
have been in poor health for several years last past; * * * 
My hfe has been one continued scene of trouble; kept out 
of my allowance from the County for years, and some of 
it lost; a great deal of sickness I had myself and in my 
family, seldom all of us being in health at the same time; 
I have buried two wives and two children in less than five 
years; and am now eleven in family; the oldest, (Daniel) 
a little over sixteen; my house rent £16 per year, and an 
expense every other Sunday of taking my children with 
me to Newtown and Flushing." 

June 7, 1731, he was in custody of the Sheriff for z 
judgment of £42 obtained against him by Henry Cuyler, 
merchant of New York. In 1724 he was cast in the suit 
for the parsonage, and in 1728 he was deprived of the 
Church and had to preach in the County Court House. 
Need we wonder that he writes, June 16, 1731, that the 
infirmities of age bear very hard on him; he is almost 
unable to officiate and prays the Venerable Society to be 



OF GRACE CHURCH 65 

permitted to quit this mission and return to his native land. 
(Doc. Hist., Ill, 310, quoted by H. Onderdonk.) 

Some of Mr. Foyer's sermons have been preserved in 
manuscript carefully and neatly written in a fine hand- 
writing and with notes of the occasions on which they 
were composed and delivered. They indicate a wider 
activity and influence than of his predecessors while they 
were at Jamaica. He officiated at Trinity Church, New 
York, while Mr. Vesey went to England. He made jour- 
neys once or twice into New England. 

They were adapted to the events which called them 
forth, showing the sympathy, loyalty and courage of his 
mind and character. A list of these relics of his thought 
and piety was made by Mr. Henry Onderdonk, in his "An- 
tiquities of the Farish Church, Jamaica," p. 39. 

On December 13, 1731, Mr. Foyer was taken ill with a 
prevailing distemper which is supposed to have been the 
small pox. He made his will with much difficulty on Jan. 
8, 1732, being unable to sign his name in full, but did not 
die until a week after. In his will he says: 

"I give my soul to God: my body to be Christianly 
buried, in certain hopes of a reunion of my body and soul 
at the last day, and of eternal life through the merits of 
Christ my Savior." 

To his wife, Sarah, and her heirs he bequeathed his es- 
tate, real and personal, appointing her Executrix with 
power to sell such part as she pleased for the payment of 
his debts and to provide for the maintenance of herself and 
his children, distributing to them his estate at her discretion. 

Mr. Foyer was buried on the north side of the village 
burying ground, but no stone marks his grave or that of 



66 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

under the Stone 



his widow. Two wives were buried 
Church while he was in possession. 

The homestead with sixteen acres of land was sold to 
Mr. Foyer's successor. His wife was left in great need 
when the estate was finally settled, and subscriptions in 
the parish were given for her support. (Onderdonk.) 



f 



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CHAPTER VII. 

The Jamaica Church Controversy— A Review of its His- 
tory, Legal Aspects, and Decisions. 

The contention of the missionaries of the Society in New 
York, as well as the Governors, was that the true intent of 
the Act of the Provincial Assembly in 1693, which con- 
tains the words ''Instituted and inducted Church Wardens 
and Vestrymen," was the settlement of the National Min- 
istry according to the laws of England. 

The memorial of the inhabitants of Jamaica in Queens 
County to Governor Robert Hunter in 1710 claimed that 
the town of Jamaica was purchased from the Indians by 
their predecessors and ancestors, who were subjects of the 
realm of England and Protestant Dissenters in the man- 
ner of worship from the forms used in the Church of 
England, who settled and improved the lands and called a 
minister of their own to officiate among them and several 
others successively, until 1673. In \^76 the townsmen 
set apart lands for the encouragement and support of the 
minister; in 1693 they purchased a house and other con- 
veniences for the accommodation of their ministers. In 
1699 they erected a meeting house or public edifice for the 
worship and service of God in their own way, and peace- 
ably possessed and used it; that in 1703-4 they were, with 
force and violence, without any trial or judgment at law, 
turned out and dispossessed of the same. 

The original settlers of Jamaica, being Dissenters and 
inostly Presbyterians, for a few years had their own way 



68 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

in all public matters, and conducted the affairs of the 
Church organized in 1662, in the town meetings. 

Col. Morris, who was a Judge and later Chief Justice of 
the Province of New York, in a letter to the Society, Feb. 
20, 1711, gives the history of the building of the first 
Church in America, and of the passas:e of the two acts by 
which the Church of England, through her ministers, laid 
claim to the Church properties, built under these acts, 
which were passed when Governor Fletcher was in office. 

Col. Morris says: 'The Church was built and a Dissent- 
ing minister called and if I mistake not paid, the other Dis- 
senters who were forced to comply were very much dis- 
satisfied at this procedure of their brethren, and many of 
them appeared in the interest of the Church; thinking no 
other way so effectual to defeat their adversaries; and this 
was the beginning of the Church of England in Jamaica 
on Long Island: the Church and parsonage house con- 
tinued in the possession of the Dissenters till some time 
after the arrival of Mr. Urquhart, when a representation 
was made to my Lord Cornbury that the Church and house 
being built by Public Act could belong to none but the 
Church of England. My Lord upon this gives his warrant 
to dispossess the Dissenters which immediately (by force), 
was done without any procedure at Law, and Mr. Urqu- 
hart put in possession of them: this short method might be 
of some service to the Minister, but it was very far from be- 
ing of any to the Church, as no such unaccountable step 
ever can be. Mr. Urquhart kept the possession during his 
life, and though he gained not many converts, yet his con- 
duct was so good that I don't think he lost any." 

There were two Acts of the Provincial Assembly of New 
York in the years 1693 and 1695 in which "Church Ward- 



OF GRACE CHURCH 69 

ens and Vestrymen" were mentioned as well as ''institu- 
tion and induction," plainly referring to an Episcopal 
Establishment of religion. On these Acts, being the latest 
legislation on the subject in the Province, were based the 
present demands of the Missionaries and Churchmen for 
the rights of the Church of England ministry. 

These included the possession of the Church building 
erected by taxes, and completed under an Enabling Act 
of 1699 and private contributions, and of the parsonage 
likewise secured by public assessments and vote of the 
town meeting; also for the salary raised in the same way 
from the parish. 

The contention of the Dissenters was that the Act of 
1693, as its own language proved, did not establish the 
Church of England in the Province. The Legislature of 
1695, in an Act for better explaining the Act of 1693, posi- 
tively declared that the Vestry and Church Wardens had 
power to call a dissenting minister and that "he is to be 
paid and maintained as the law directs." 

Governor Fletcher, however, asserted the meaning of 
the law to be what was contrary to the declaration of the 
Assembly; but was the intention of the Act. 

There was involved in the Jamaica troubles the rights 
of the English Church in the Colonies of Great Britain. 

Rev. John Thomas, the first missionary of the Church 
of England settled in Hempstead, Long Island, Dec. 26, 
1704, wrote of it to the Venerable Society in England: "I 
humbly beg leave," he says, ''to present to the Venerable 
Society the ill consequences that may ensue by this exam- 
ple, if a call from the Dissenting party entitle a Dissenter 
to be Parish minister and to the salary of the parish, then 



70 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

upon the death or removal of the present incumbent, the 
vacancies in most parishes will be filled with Dissenters, so 
will Dissention sit triumphant on the throne supported by 
the countenance of the laws of the Government." 

Later on, in a memorial to the Society by eight American 
rectors, dated Nov. 13, 1711, it was stated that the loss of 
this cause would bring certain ruin eventually upon the 
Established Church in the whole government of New York 
and bad influences upon the Church in all the adjacent Col- 
onies, especially the Jersies and Pennsylvania. 

The Presbyterians avowed openly "in the face of the 
Country," as Mr. Poyer wrote the Society, that ''the Lord 
Bishop of London had no power here." 

The jurisdiction of the Bishop of London over the Col- 
onies made him the most important person next to the 
Governor. He was a non-resident official in close rela- 
tionship at home with the Crown. There was nothing 
beneath his notice which might be for the civil or ecclesi- 
astical benefit of the realm. 

All the clergy who were sent out to the Colonies were 
sent out by the Bishop of London. No one else could send 
them. 

The British law implied and assumed that to make good 
subjects was to make good Christians, and the Church of 
England was the best Church to do this with Englishmen. 

So the Bishop of London found it his duty to search for 
missionaries, supply those sent abroad with a church 
house, glebe, library and wages until local effort could 
supply their needs. The providing of schools and school- 
masters was also a difficult part of his work at home and 
abroad, where he kept in touch with the Governor in 



OF GRACE CHURCH 71 

things pertaining to education as well as to the church 
ministrations. 

The opposition to Episcopy in New York, partly on 
account of this controversy, led to new provision for its 
defence. A charter had been granted to Trinity Church in 
New York in 1697, in which it is frequently asserted that 
the Church of England in the Province was established by 
law. The rector, Rev. Mr. Vesey, was sent to England 
carrying a copy of this charter, in order to present the 
matter to the highest authorities and secure some relief to 
the cause of the Church, in the contention. 

In the year 1 705 another Act of General Assembly was 
passed for the better explaining the previous one, for set- 
tling the ministry and paying the salaries of the incumbents 
of the Church Wardens. The Independents made com- 
plaint against Lord Cornbury for his arbitrary course in 
regard to the Jamaica parsonage and other property, lay- 
ing claim also to the Church because they were more in 
number than the Churchmen who had paid for it. 

Lord Lovelace succeeded Lord Cornbury, and these com- 
plaints came before him, but the matter was not deter- 
mined before he died. The Lieut. Governor, Col. In- 
goldesby, recommended that neighboring ministers of the 
Church should serve at Jamaica, alternately. When he 
was removed, in the interim of Governors under Col. 
Beekman, President of the Council, some of the Independ- 
ents took possession forcibly of the Church, but were 
arrested and fined for the proceeding. 

They obtained possession again through the action of 
the widow of Rev. Mr. Urquhart, whose daughter had 
married a Presbyterian clergyman, Mr. George McNish, 



72 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

and who turned over the parsonage to him: The Sheriff, 
who was a strong Independent, refused to turn them out, 
and so Mr. Poyer, on his arrival and induction, and after 
numerous efforts and demands, which were made in vain, 
was kept out of possession of the parsonage and glebe. 

The Act to settle the Church, it was contended by the 
Churchmen, ''is very loosely worded, which as things 
stood then when it was made could not be avoided, the 
Dissenters claiming the benefit of it as we, and the Act 
without such wrestling will admit a construction in their 
favor as well as ours, they think it was intended for them 
and that they only have a right to it." 

It appears that the members of the Legislature which 
passed the Act were all but one Dissenters, but the Gov- 
ernor and Council who constituted part of the Legislature 
were Churchmen, and that the Act was really intended to 
aid the Churchmen to build churches by the maker of the 
bills, who was James Graham, Esquire, the Speaker of the 
Assembly. 

In Mr. Foyer's time Gov. Hunter, according to Col. 
Morris, could not help thinking the Church was right with 
respect to their claims for the property, and urged Mr. 
Poyer to bring suit of law, to recover possession, and of- 
fered to pay the expenses of the suit from his own purse. 
So also did Col. Heathcote, but Mr. Poyer referred the 
matter to the judgment of the Society; because he could 
not prevail on the Governor to take summary proceedings, 
as Lord Cornbury had done for Mr. Urquhart. 

Mr. Poyer was charged by Col. Morris and Governor 
Hunter with being weak in his character and action. The 
contention was made to the Society in Memorials by Gov. 
Hunter, Col. Morris and Col. Heathcote, the Clergy of 



OF GRACE CHURCH 73 

New York, missionaries and rectors of New York and of 
some of the Colonies; and by Mr. Poyer. Finally suit was 
brought by Mr. Poyer by advice of Council for the parson- 
age and glebe, which was lost. 

*The only record made of the trial of the suit of Mr. 
Poyer against the tenants of the parsonage lands, home- 
stead and outlands that has been found reads as follows, in 
the minutes of the trial in Judg:e Morris's book: 

At a Court, by nisi prius, held at Jamaica. Present, Lewis 
Morris,*Esq., Chief Justice. 
John Chambers vs. Joseph Hegeman, Jr. 
The Same vs. Robert Denton. 
Defendants confers lease, entry and ouster. 

EVIDENCE FOR PLAINTIFF. 

Thomas Welling, John Dean, Nehemiah Smith Sworn. 

A Vote of town meeting in 1676, for parsonage lands, Richard 
Combs. 

Warrant from Lord Cornbury to Cardale to survey Church 
lands. 

Act of Assembly to explain the former Act (1705). 

John Chambers sworn and Thomas Whitehead. 

An Exemplification of the Special Verdict read. 

EVIDENCE FOR DEFENCE. 

An agreement of the town of Jamaica with Rev. John 
Prudden read. 

Votes of the town for Rev. John Hubbard and George Mc- 
Nish, to be ministers read. 

Joseph Smith and Elizabeth Stillwell sworn. 

Mr. Prudden's Exchange of land with the town, (September 
29, 1693) read. 

Jury find for defendant. 

Murray for plaintifif and Jamison for defendant. 

The postea returned up November term, 1724. 



*Onderdonk. 



74 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

The judges in the trial denied all authority from Eng- 
land in spiritual matters, and the memorialist to the Society 
declared it was impossible to get an impartial jury in that 
County where all are concerned in the event, and the 
greater number of them stiff Independents. 

A suit for salary was undertaken under the extremely 
urgent representations to Mr. Poyer of Gov. Hunter, Col. 
Morris, Col. Heathcote, who blamed him for lukewarm- 
ness and hesitancy in bringing his case to decision by law, 
the costs of which they again and again offered to defray. 
Mr. Poyer in reply to their charges averred that he had 
exerted himself in this affair with a zeal suitable to his 
office and duty, and meanwhile had borne the burdens and 
hardships which the nonpayment of his salary imposed on 
himself and his family. 

An address of the Clergy of the Province of New York 
to Gov. Hunter March 3, 1712, attempts to exculpate Mr. 
Poyer from the charges of disregard of the Governor's 
representation and advice relative to bringing to trial by 
law the matters of the Jamaica controversy. 

Aug. 26, 1712, the Society brought the Jamaica case 
before the Queen; and representing to her that Mr. Poyer 
had not yet brought suit by advice, because the Clergy had 
declared justice could not be obtained in such trial, asked 
her Majesty to instruct the Governor and Council of New 
York that 'in causes relating immediately to the Church 
an appeal may lie to her Majesty and Privy Council here 
without any restriction or limitation of the value or sum 
appealed for." 

An order in the Queen's Council, Jan. 8, 1712, was 
granted in consideration of the Jamaica case, authorizing 
such direct appeal from the Governor and Council to 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



75 



Her Majesty and Privy Council without limitation as to 
value aforesaid, and instructions given accordingly to 
Gov. Hunter, Feb. 6, 1713. Thus the Jamaica contention 
carried to the highest court of England fixed the course of 
procedure for all the colonial churches. 

The Vestry refused to allow Mr. Poyer to be present at 
their meeting to lay a tax for the minister and poor, telling 
him he had nothing to do there, though they took Mr. 
McNish with them. 




The Governor informed Mr. Poyer that by Her Majes- 
ty's instructions they can hold no Vestry without Mr. 
Poyer, having been regularly inducted in that case. He 
continued, "so what they do as a Vestry without you, is 
null and void. Had my advice been followed these de- 
bates had been at an end, but that it seems is none of your 



76 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Intention, at least not theirs who advise you, or have ever 
had, or thought to have and find their interest in 
confusion." 

The Justice and Vestry of Jamaica met Jan. 22, 1714, 
and ordered the salary to be paid to Mr. McNish, the Pres- 
byterian minister, as they had done the previous year, 
taking no notice of the Governor's instructions. 

Rev. Mr. Colgan, twenty years after this, thus wrote 
the Society: 

One of the stratagems of Independents and Quakers was to 
sue for an edifice wherein divine service was performed by 
ministers of the Church of England near 30 years by pretence 
that they had a better right than the Church members and thus 
met with not a little success, for in sueing Mr. Poyer my prede- 
cessor, who being Defendant in the case they upon a very odd 
turn in the trial cast him. 

I am informed that in this suit, the Counsel upon the part of 
the Church always designed to put the matter on some points 
of the law which are clearly in the Church's favor and accord- 
ingly in the time of trial offered to demur in law but was di- 
verted therefrom by the late Chief Justice Morris Esq., before 
whom the trial was, who told them that he would recommend 
to the Jury to find a special verdict, and if they did not, but 
found generally and against the Church, he would then allow a 
new trial ; which after the Jury had found a general verdict 
against the Church he absolutely refused when the Counsel for 
the Church laid claim to his promise and strongly insisted upon 
the benefit thereof. 

I have been told by some of the Counsel for the Church that 
the only seeming reason he gave for his denial was that a bad 
promise was better broke than kept and thus an end was put to 
the controversy. 

THOMAS COLGAN. 

June 14, 1734- 

Doc. Hist. New York, Letter to Secy. S. P. G., Ill, p. 190. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 11 

Some of the later decisions in this controversy are here 
given: 

April 7, 1715. In the Supreme Court a Special verdict 
was given in an action brought by Mr. Poyer against Mr. 
McNish for recovering part of the minister's money, where 
the right of Mr. Poyer was fully argued and judgment 
passed in his behalf. The expenses of the suit were £30, 
and were paid by the Venerable Society. The lawsuits for 
Glebe lands and the Church itself were lost by the Church 
of England people. 

On the 25th of Feb., 1719, in the case of the non-pay- 
ment of salary to Mr. Poyer, the Judges gave judgment 
against the two church wardens, imposing a fine and dis- 
missing them from office. New church wardens were 
then appointed in their stead. 

The cause of this unhappy controversy can be clearlv 
traced to the deep-seated opposition o'f the Independent 
and dissenting element in the population of the American 
Colonies, to the recognition of a foreign secular authorit}' 
over the religious affairs of the Colonies. 

There was proceeding from this opposition a plain 
denial of the canonical rights of the Bishop of London in 
the Established Church, when he proceeded to control and 
appoint the ministers of the Established Church in the 
Colonies. 



7S ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

CHAPTER VIII. 

The Rectorship of Rev. Thomas Colgan. 

Rev. Thomas Colgan was born in 1701, and entered 
upon the work of the Venerable Society in America in 
1 725. He had a mission to the negroes and Indians in and 
about New York from 1725 to 1731, and had gained the 
favor of the rector and wardens of Trinity Church, where 
he began to read services, and to preach in June, 1732. 
Endowed with a peculiarly clear and distinct voice it was 
also so strong that it could be heard by the remotest wor- 
shippers, and his services were received " with great 
applause." 

Mr. Colgan was so highly recommended to the Society 
for the vacancy made by Mr. Foyer's resignation, that he 
received the appointment, and began to officiate in June, 
1732. He was inducted by mandate of Governor Cosby 
Jan. 31, 1733. This mandate was addressed ''to all and 
singular, the rectors, vicars, chaplains, curates, clergymen, 
and ministers, whatsoever, in and throughout the whole 
Province wherever established: and, also to Samuel Fish 
and Samuel Smith, present Church Wardens of the Paro- 
chial Church of Jamaica, on Long Island, in the Province 
of New York." It presented Thos. Colgan "to the rectory 
or parochial church; it firmly enjoined and commanded 
them, to collate and induct the said Thomas Colgan, or his 
lawful proctor in his name and for himself, into the real, 
actual and corporeal possession of said rectory or church, 
with all its rights and appurtenances." 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



79 



The Vestry refused to pay Mr. Colgan any salary before 
his induction or after it, and he brought suit for the £60 
due him before his induction. The dissenting wardens 
sought by special act of the Assembly to divert it from him, 
but were unsuccessful. 



"From that time there were no further complaints of 
non payment of salary, no law suits nor quarrels." 
(— Onderdonk.) 




Grace Church, 1734. (From an old print.) 



The spirit of his ministry was well expressed in his letter 
to the Society, a few years after, describing the new church 
which had been built, as one of the handsomest in North 
America. "Our Church is flourishing and many are 
added to it. We are at peace with the Sectarians around 



80 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

us. I shall be of a loving and charitable demeanor to 
every persuasion." 

Mr. Colgan undertook to erect churches in the three 
towns. One was built in Newtown in 1735. It is still 
standing and in use for the Sunday School of St. James. 
Another in Flushing, eleven years after, in 1746. 

From the beginning of Mr. Colgan's rectorship, the St. 
James Church in Newtown prospered. In five years he 
had baptized there twenty-three persons in two families, 
and many others, both white and black, and distributed 
among the poor the books sent over by the Society. In 
Flushing and Jamaica, Quaker families conformed to the 
Church, and were baptized, his distribution of pastoral 
and theological books and prayer books having been very 
effective for their enlightenment. 

Mr. Colgan for two years gathered the people for ser- 
vice in the Town House, where Mr. Poyer had ministered 
in the latter part of his life, to a disheartened people. 

Under Mr. Colgan's direction they began to exert them- 
selves towards building a new church, but finding them- 
selves unable alone to accomplish the undertaking, they 
were obliged to apply to several well-disposed Christians 
in the province, from whom they received considerable 
help, and especially from the Governor and his family. 

Mr. Colgan married Mary, daughter of John Reade of 
New York, and a niece of Rev. Mr. Vesey. With property 
thus acquired, he bought the farm of the widow of Mr. 
Poyer, and added to it, so that it contained 66 acres. His 
comparative wealth gave him a higher position in the 
community. Mr. Colgan was strong and vigorous but 
peaceful in disposition. His people continued to worship 
in the Town House, and his congregations grew so large 



OF GRACE CHURCH 81 

in all three communities to which he ministered, that they 
sought to build churches for themselves. They had in- 
creased from 20 or 30 to 200 in Jamaica. The people in 
Jamaica were aided by others in the Province, and espe- 
cially by Governor Cosby, his wife and family. A lot of 
land was given by the widow of Col. Heathcote bordering 
on the highway west of the Stone Church. It contained 
about half an acre, and was deeded to Thos. Colgan, 
Rector, his heirs and successors, to remain the property of 
the Church, so long as it should retain its Episcopal wor- 
ship and character. Here was erected the first Episcopal 
Church concerning which there could be no contention. 
The churchmen, however, solicited aid in its building, 
which was freely given. 

By June, 1734, it was in a condition to hold services, 
though far from completion. There was no bell, but 
decent and comely vestments were furnished by the Gov- 
ernor's wife, '' a great friend and patroness." The ap- 
pointments of the services under former rectors, and the 
gifts of the Society were still preserved for use. 

Grace Church was opened on Friday, April 5, 1734, for 
the first service, and it was a notable event in Jamaica. 

There is no reason assigned for thus naming the church. 
It seems to have been first applied to the Jamaica Church. 
The origin of the name has been traced to a Grace Church 
St., in London, where there was in old times a Church 
popularly called the Grass Church, because of the holding 
of a market close by, and spreading grass on the ground. 
From this the street apparently took its name. Some col- 
onist in the early Georgian days, remembering the name 
of the street in London, thought it was named from Grace 
Church and suggested the name for Jamaica. The name 



82 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

of William Harrison, minister of Grace Church, is signed 
on a tract, A. D. 1704, entitled, 'The rights of Protestant 
Dissenters," which has a printed ending: ''A vindica- 
tion of the Ministers of the Gospel in and about Lon- 
don, from the unjust aspersions Cast upon their former 
Actings for the Parliament. As if they had promoted the 
bringing of the King to Capital Punishment," &c. The 
date of the vindication is fixed by the exhortation to their 
followers, to pray "that God would restrain the violence 
of men that they may not dare to draw upon themselves 
and the Kingdom, the blood of their Sovereign," being 
therefore some months before Jan. 1648-9, when Charles 
I was beheaded. (Letter of Prof. Richard H. Thornton, 
Law School of the University of Oregon.) 

The name of Grace Church first appears on this occa- 
sion. No account of its origin or the reasons for its use 
are given, but the very fitness of the name to the charac- 
ter of the services and the Church thenceforth under the 
ministry of Mr. Colgan and his successors were a vindica- 
tion of its appropriateness. 

''Our church," Mr. Colgan writes soon after, "is in a 
flourishing state, and by the blessing of God many are 
added to it; now we are at peace with those several secre- 
taries that are round about us, and I hope by God's help 
peace will subsist amongst us. To sow the seeds thereof 
shall be my endeavor, to be of a loving charitable de- 
meanor to all men of whatever persuasion in matters of 
religion shall be by God's help my practise, that so dis- 
charging my duty herein, I may contribute my mite to the 
good of the Church of Christ." (Letters to the Society.) 

The successive reports of Mr. Colgan to the Society 
show an appreciation in the communities to which he min- 



OF GRACE CHURCH 83 

istered, of the peaceable and charitable spirit thus avowed 
as the aim and tenor of his ministry. It had become the 
prevailing disposition of those who were Churchmen, and 
dissenters were also brought in to happier relations with 
their neighbors and fellow citizens. The truths of re- 
ligion, and the reasonable claims of the Church that from 
the first had stood for them had their due eflfect. 

Mr. Colgan wrote, Nov. 22, 1740: "We have yearly for 
seven years last past increased in church members. So 
those buildings are generally well filled in time of Divine 
service, and the worship of God is duly performed with 
decency and good order, the several sects which are around 
us do look upon the Church with a more respectful eye 
than formerly: there being not wanting either in myself 
or people any Christian like or prudential means necessary 
to form a reconciliation and union amon?" us." 



'& 



About a year later, Dec. 15, 1741, Mr. Colgan wrote the 
Society: "I must with a great deal of truth say of these 
churches Jamaica, Newtown and Flushing, that not only 
are they in a growing condition and the members thereof 
generally of an exemplary life and conversation, but that 
the Church of England here was never in so much credit 
and reputation among the Dissenters of all sorts as at this 
day: their opinion concerning her Doctrine as well as dis- 
cipline being vastly more favorable than ever." 

This moral and spiritual prosperity with increase of 
numbers and activity continued for several years. Sept., 
1743, Mr. Colgan writes: ''Never in so thriving a condition 
—have baptized since my last report seventeen persons in 
three families." But he wrote a year later, 1744: "Inde- 
pendency which has been triumphant in this town for the 
40 years last past is now by the Providence of God in a 



84 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

very faint and declining condition." It is evident that the 
old spirit was not dead, but had moved into the other 
house. 

The prosperity of Grace Church was increased at this 
time by a violent dissension in the Dutch Church in New- 
town and Jamaica. 

On Sept. 29, 1 746, a Church had been erected in Flush- 
ing and Mr. Colgan hoped that it could be finished in three 
months. "There was," he wrote, ''no set of people within 
this province who are greater objects of the Society's pity 
and charity than those belonging to the town of Flushing." 
This Church was only enclosed so as to keep out the 
weather. It had to stand fifteen years before it was fin- 
ished. The Quakers, who were very numerous in Flush- 
ing, not only bitterly opposed the Church of England ser- 
vices, but through their doctrines of the inward light as 
their only guide removed the restraints of worship, the 
word of God, and the outward forms of religion, and cor- 
rupted the youth and those indifferent or hostile to re- 
ligious authority. 

It seems incongruous with such piety as Mr. Colgan 
and his people possessed that in 1747 they resorted to a 
public lottery for the benefit of the church. Thirteen hun- 
dred tickets were sold at eight shillings each, equal to £520. 
From each prize won, 12 1/2 per cent, was drawn for pur- 
chasing a bell for Grace Church. 

The home life of Mr. Colgan's family offered social at- 
tractions to the people of Jamaica. His extensive farm, 
situated on the west side of Beaver Pond, which was in 
full view, added to the beauty of the location. 

Upon the farm, which was fenced, was an orchard of 
one hundred trees, from whose fruits a hundred barrels of 



OF GRACE CHURCH 85 

cider could be made each year. The house had eight 
rooms on a floor, and two good rooms upstairs. The 
shrubs and bushes around the pond were frequented by 
birds and game. It is of historic interest that this estate, 
afterwards the residence for two or three generations of 
the family and descendants of Hon. Rufus King, and his 
son. Governor John A. King, and Senator John A. King 
and Miss Cornelia King, became the spacious and beauti- 
ful King Manor Park in the center of Queens Borough and 
Jamaica. One of Mr. Colgan's daughters, Mary, married 
Mr. Christopher Smith, who after Mrs. Colgan's death 
inherited the farm, and resided there. From them it came 
by purchase into the possession of Hon. Rufus King. A 
journal of the family life of Mr. and Mrs. Smith has been 
preserved, which contains no notable incidents of general 
interest. Mrs. Colgan, the widow, died in the Mansion 
April 17, 1776. She had the same peaceful temper of 
Christianity which brings comfort in life, which marked 
her husband's ministry, and as wife, parent and friend 
traveled through ''the path that shineth more and more 
unto the perfect day." 

The pews and lots in the new Church and grounds were 
sold to the highest bidder. The terms of the sale required 
that each purchaser should build his own pew. If he did 
not make use of it the Church should let it out to another, 
and if he left the parish, the pew or lot was to revert to 
the Church. 

The names of the purchasers of the thirty pews, on Feb. 
23, 1737, were found in a book of Christopher Smith, 
copied in 1786 from a certified copy of the original list, 
which was itself copied in 1761, by Edward Willett and 
John Troup. These names include some which became 
distinguished in subsequent history of New York families. 



S6 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

1 Daniel Whitehead, 2 Robert Howell, 3 George Reyn- 
olds, 4 William Steed, 5 Rector for time being, 6 Anthony 
Waters, 7 Richard Betts, Jr., 8 Richard Betts, 9 Samuel 
Clowes, 10 Samuel Clowes, Jr, 11 Gabriel LutT, 12 John 
Willett, 13 Andrew Clark, 14 Robert Freeman, 15 Com- 
mon pew, 16 Henry Wright, 17 Edward Willett to Samuel 
Smith, 18 Benjamin Taylor, 19 Sarah Poyer, gratis, 20 
Benjamin Thorne, 21 Samuel Clowes, 22 Thomas Colgan, 
23 William Welling, 24 Timothy Bridges, 25 Guy Young, 
26 Isaac Van Hook, 27 William Wiggins, 28 Daniel Saw- 
yer, 29 Silas Wiggins, 30 Benjamin Whitehead. 

The ministry of Mr. Colgan in Jamaica especially fos- 
tered the education of his parishioners and in the same 
year of his induction, from the Venerable Society, Mr. 
Willett received a salary of £15 a year as a teacher, com- 
mended for his exemplary life and diligence. Five years 
after he had forty-three pupils, of whom twenty-three 
were freely taught by the Society. Thomas Temple main- 
tained a school at intervals from 1731 to 1746, and in 
1743, Mr. John Moore, a graduate of Yale College, and a 
candidate for holy orders was recommended to the sup- 
port of the Society by Rev. Mr. Vesey, to teach in Jamaica. 
The venerable school-house thus made memorable to 
many of the early churchmen of Jamaica, as their paro- 
chial school, was sold in 1761 for £3. 

Four years before the close of Mr. Colgan's ministry, in 
1751, he reported the same prosperous condition of Grace 
Church. He had "fifty steady communicants, had bap- 
tized sixteen whites and ten negroes in the last six months; 
religion was progressing and the Society's bounty turned 
to good account." With about the same number of bap- 
tisms in the year 1753, he could say that "all three 
churches of his cure were in an increasing state." 




Rev. Tii()S. Colcian. 



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When Mr. Colgan died, Dec, 1755, he was regretted as 
a gentleman much esteemed by his acquaintance. He 
was buried in the chancel of the church, which he had seen 
erected without dispute and which he had steadfastly used 
for the glory of God. 

He left a family consisting of his wife and eight chil- 
dren. The married names of his daughters were Mary 
Smith, Sarah Hammersley, Jane Van Zandt. The remain- 
ing children were Judith, Thomas, Fleming, and John, 
who died in 1758. 

Mrs. Colgan was buried beside her husband in Grace 
Church, where their lives had been of gracious service to 
a united people. 

On Christmas, 1903, a life-size portrait of Mr. Colgan 
was given to Grace Church by Mary Sheaf Glover Mills, 
in loving memory of his great granddaughter, Mary Col- 
gan Joanna Smith Hoyt. A portrait of this granddaughter 
is in the King Manor collection. 

The Colgan family arms on parchment were also given, 
with the portrait of the rector, as an interesting relic to be 
preserved in Grace Church. He belonged to a family in 
England of some distinction, whose descendants have been 
allied by marriage with those of high rank in the nobility 
of the realm. 

The Church in Jamaica, erected during the ministry of 
Mr. Colgan, having become too small, gave way to another 
in 1821, built on the same ground, which had been sur- 
rounded with graves of its parishioners. 



88 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



CHAPTER IX. 

The Ministry of Rev. Samuel Seabury, Jr. — 1757-1766. 

The contentious spirit so long restrained by the pacific 
and prosperous rectorship of Rev. Mr. Colgan again broke 
forth after his death. The law of the Province still pre- 
vailed, making it possible for the community to elect 
Wardens and a Vestry hostile to the Church of England. 
The Vestry in fact had a majority of Dissenters, and they 
presented Mr. Simon Horton for induction into the parish 
of Jamaica town. Mr. Horton was a dissenting teacher. 
Sir Charles Hardy, the Governor of New York, following 
the instructions of the King, refused to admit him to the 
cure. He could not present the requisite certificate under 
the Episcopal Seal of the Bishop of London. No person 
who had conformed to the Liturgy of the Church of Eng- 
land was presented, and after six months, the Governor 
appointed the Rev. Samuel Seabury, Jr., a missionary 
supported by the Society, at New Brunswick, to the cure 
of the three churches. 

The three Churches had been supplied by the ministra- 
tions of several clergymen, one of whom. Rev. Mr. Bar- 
clay, had made report to the Society of their needs, which 
the Society took into consideration, and prompt action. 

Mr. Samuel Seabury, Jr., had been early in the service 
of the Society, as a lay reader, or catechist at Huntington, 
L. I., under the direction of his father, Rev. Samuel Sea- 
bury, rector of the church in Hempstead. At the time of 
Mr. Colgan's death he was a missionary of the Society and 



OF GRACE CHURCH 89 

rector at New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was trans- 
ferred to Grace Church, Jamaica, in 1757. 

Mr. Seabury was born at Groton, Conn., Nov. 30, 1729, 
when his father was rector at New London, nearly oppo- 
site to Groton. When the father removed to Hempstead, 
the scene of his most noted and useful missionary labors, 
his son was fourteen years old, and was to be educated at 
his father's parochial school in Hempstead. Here he was 
both a pupil and tutor. He received the degree of M. A. 
at Yale College in 1748. Thus began the distinguished 
career of the Samuel Seabury, Jr., who became the fifth 
rector of Grace Church by appointment of the Society. 
Having served as catechist in Huntington, L. I., from 
1748-1752, he went to England and received Holy Orders 
from the Bishop of Lincoln in 1753; from thence he went 
to New Brunswick, New Jersey. 

His ancestors were of Portlake, Devonshire, England. 
His great grandfather was a noted physician and surgeon 
at Duxbury, Mass., and his grandfather, John Seabury, a 
Congregational deacon, his grandmother, Elizabeth Alden, 
was a granddaughter of John Alden of the Mayflower. 
The sturdy character which the rector of Jamaica had thus 
inherited from Puritan ancestry was well fitted to meet 
the grievous trials which came to him in his ministry at 
Jamaica, and his valiant and unique service to the Epis- 
copal Church in America as the first Bishop, and the first 
Bishop of the Anglican Communion outside of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain. 

Archdeacon Tiffiny says in his History of the American 
Church: "Jamaica m.ade its mark on him, as well as he on 
it." His rectorship of the three churches continued for 
eight years, till 1765. He valued the association which 



90 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

this ministry gave him, with Rev. Samuel Seabury of 
Hempstead, since it brought him "nearer to a most excel- 
lent father, whom he dearly loved and whose conversation 
he highly valued." Mr. Seabury was brought at once into 
contact with the Quakerism which had smothered the 
principles of the Church, and produced indifference and 
infidelity, the neglect of divine worship and contempt of 
the sacraments. He reported gloomily of the state of re- 
ligion in Flushing, which he called ''the grand seat of 
Quakerism, in the last generation, and in this the seat of 
infidelity." In Jamaica, 1759, he wrote, there was less 
"open infidehty, but a general remissness in attending 
Divine Service prevails, though I know not from what par- 
ticular cause." 

Six months later he wrote the Society: "A general indif- 
ference towards all religion has taken place; and the too 
common opinion seems to be that they shall be saved 
without either of the Christian Sacraments, without any 
external worship of God, — in short without the mediation 
of Christ, as well as with; and even among those who pro- 
fess themselves members of the Church of England, a very 
great backwardness in attending her service prevails, and 
particularly with regard to the holy Sacrament of the 
Lord's Supper; so great is their aversion to it, or neglect 
of it, that I fear the number of Communicants at present 
scarce exceeds twenty." (Original Letters, Vol. XIX, L. 
154; 2 Ibid I, 155.) 

It was at the time of Mr. Seabury's ministry in Jamaica 
that the needs of the Church of England in America made 
the question of the appointment of Bishops of vital im- 
portance. After the preaching of Whitfield there was an 
increase of strolling preachers who abused the Church of 



OF GRACE CHURCH 91 

England, and led those who had any inclination to religion 
into strange and fanatical expressions of it. 

The authority of the orders in the Church was disputed, 
and there was no one to represent that authority or defend 
and justify it by the ordination of ministers, and the con- 
firmation of those who were baptized. The urgent and 
repeated calls of the Colonies for resident Bishops were 
refused by the mother country. Yet young men willing 
and qualified to serve the church often lost their lives to 
obtain ordination in England. 

In a letter, dated April 1 7, 1 76^, Mr. Seabury wrote of 
these often recurring calamities, as follows: 

"We have lately had a most affecting account of the loss 
of Messrs. Giles and Wilson, the Society's Missionaries, 
the ship they were in being wrecked near the entrance of 
Delaware Bay, and only four persons saved out of twenty- 
eight. 

"Their death is a great loss in the present want of 
clergymen in these Colonies; and indeed, I believe one 
great reason why so few from this Continent offer them- 
selves for Holy Orders is because it is evident from expe- 
rience that not more than four or five who have gone from 
northern colonies have returned. This is one unanswer- 
able argument for the absolute necessity of bishops in the 
colonies. The poor Church of England in America is the 
only instance that ever happened of an Episcopal Church 
without a bishop, and in which no orders could be ob- 
tained without crossing an ocean 3000 miles in extent. 
Without bishops the Church cannot flourish in America. 
* * * And that it is of the last consequence to the State 
to support the Church here, the present times afford a 
most alarming proof." 



92 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

The effect of Mr. Seabury's steady ministry of the doc- 
trines and sacraments of the Church was to produce a 
serious state of mind in his parishes. In Flushing, in 1762, 
the white congregation had increased from twenty to 
eighty. At Jamaica, Mr. Seabury reported to the Society 
that there were 120 families in communion with the 
Church and twenty-nine communicants. The families of 
Dissenters at the same time amounted to 500. In 1764 
he had baptized at one time "ten adults who gave a good 
account of their faith." In 1765, after Jamaica and Flush- 
ing had been visited by Mr. Whitfield, and the effects of 
his tenets and preaching duly considered, Mr. Seabury 
found that none of his own people had been led away, 
while many of them had become more serious and devout. 
Mr. Seabury's sober judgment was that where there had 
been the greatest number of Quakers among the first 
settlers of the country, there infidelity and disregard to all 
religion has taken the deepest root; the religious principles 
of the other inhabitants were weakened and religion re- 
garded with indifference. 

The provident churchmanship of Mr. Seabury brought 
about the incorporation of the parishes under his charge. 
Under date of April 8, 1761, application was made to the 
civil authority in the Colony of New York for a charter of 
the parish of Jamaica. It was signed by Samuel Seabury, 
minister, and twenty laymen, ''inhabitants of the town of 
Jamaica on Nassau Island, Communicants and professors 
of the Church of England by law established." It nar- 
rates that a Church was erected in Jamaica by voluntary 
subscription, that it was in need of repairs, and that there 
was danger that moneys contributed for church purposes 
would be improperly applied for want of persons ap- 
pointed with legal authority, to superintend its affairs. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 93 

The prayer for a charter was made to Hon. Cadwallader 
Colden, President of His Majesty's Council and Com- 
mander in Chief of the Province of New York. (N. Y. 
Doc. History, III, 324.) 

The Charter was granted the same year. It empowered 
the Church of England in Jamaica to receive legacies and 
gifts, manage its temporal affairs and have a Vestry of its 
own elected by and out of its communicants. 

There was now a double set of vestrymen, one elected 
by the voters of the three parishes, in accordance with the 
general law, and the other by those in communion of the 
Church of England. This affected the collection of funds 
for the support of the rector, and threw the responsibility 
on the communicants and Vestry in the Church, in each 
parish. Of the £60 currency pledged to Mr. Seabury's 
support, £20 were paid by the Flushing church, and the 
rest by Jamaica and Newtown. To this the £50 sterling 
given by the Society in England, was added, making the 
value of the stipend received by Mr. Seabury, as estimated 
on a gold standard of the present day, to be about 500 
dollars. 

Mr. Seabury, at the beginning of his settlement in 
Jamaica, purchased a farm half a mile east of the village, 
containing twenty-eight acres. He had fourteen acres 
additional of orchard, and eight acres of salt meadow. He 
was conveniently near to the Church and had a prosper- 
ous outlook in the first years of his ministry at Jamaica, 
being 28 years of age, strong in body, and vigorous in 
health. But his family increased rapidly; five of his seven 
children were born in Jamaica. To the cares of his farm 
essential to his support, were added the difficulties encoun- 
tered in his three parishes, where there was much indiffer- 



94 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

ence and discontent, and not a few jealousies to contend 
with from those who were prominent in church affairs. 
Among' these was a notable controversy over his parochial 
rights invaded by the introduction of a Mr. Treadwell 
through the influence of a prominent layman, Mr. Aspin- 
wall. This minister, without application or notice to Mr. 
Seabury, gave a family baptism in Jamaica, and held ser- 
vices in Flushing. The correspondence remonstrating 
with and defending these ministrations was published in 
the New York newspaper, and much bitterness engendered 
thereby; and by the measures taken to complete the 
Church at Flushing, in 1760. The salary was but par- 
tially paid; the support gained from farm and parishes 
was insufficient, the advantage enjoyed by the proximity 
of his father in Hempstead was lost, through the senior 
Seabury's sickness and death. These considerations led 
to the resignation of his rectorship and assuming that of 
St. Peter's Church, Westchester, where he was instituted 
Dec. 3, 1766, and where he remained as missionary of the 
Society until 1771. 

The history of the Long Island Churches is not related 
to Mr. Seabury's prominence as a loyal subject of Great 
Britain in the Revolution, nor with his distinguished 
career as Bishop of Connecticut. He received the degree 
of Doctor of Divinity from Oxford University in 1777, 
shortly after he was driven from his mission by revolu- 
tionists and made a prisoner in New Haven. However, 
the next year he resumed his ministry in Staten Island, and 
continued there till 1782. Elected Bishop by the Episco- 
pal Clergy of Connecticut, he received ordination from the 
Bishops of the Church of Scotland. Mr. Seabury died of 
apoplexy Feb. 26, 1 796, and was buried in New London, 
Connecticut. 




Right Rev. Samuel Seaburv, First American Bishop. 

(From "Life of Bishop Seaburv," by permission of the author. 

William ]. Seaburv. D. D. ) 



OF GRACE CHURCH 95 

CHAPTER X. 

The Ministry of Rev. Joshua Bloomer — 1769-1790. 

There were three years following Rev. Mr. Seabury's 
removal to West Chester when the Jamaica mission was 
left without a missionary from the Society. The three 
congregations could not unite in making an application. 
Some serious alienations had arisen, and yet by reason of 
its proximity to New York, the Capital of the Province, the 
mission was considered of great importance. 

The number of communicants in the three towns was 
lamentably small. The adherents of the Church were in 
some instances affiliated with those who were disaffected 
with the English Government. The resistance to the pay- 
ing of the salary of £60, due from the parish, was displeas- 
ing to the Society. Among the clergy who were invited 
to officiate temporarily at Jamaica was the Rev. Charles 
Inglis, who harmonized the members of the three congre- 
gations; the congregations agreed upon the selection 
of Rev. Joshua Bloomer as Mr. Seabury's successor, and 
a few influential persons persuaded the Society in England 
to give him an appointment and a salary, reduced, how- 
ever, to £30. 

Mr. Bloomer was a young man, studious and reputable, 
who desired to enter the ministry. He had received the 
degree of Master of Arts from Columbia College in 1758, 
and being highly commended by Rev. Dr. Johnson and 
others in America, he was ordained by the Bishop of Lon- 
don Feb. 28, 1769, and sailed from Downs March 19, 



96 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

1 769, at a time when political dissensions arising from the 
passage of the Stamp Act were disturbing the country. 

He arrived at Jamaica in May and was kindly received, 
finding there a well finished church building, ana two small 
ones at Flushing and Newtown. There were 39 com- 
municants in the three Churches, who rallied to his sup- 
port, and he was highly esteemed by the peoples in the 
three communities, who treated him with kindness and 
respect whatever their religious persuasions. The Churches 
were filled as he ministered to them alternately, and there 
was but one suit against the parish necessary to settle the 
payment of the £60 stipend due, and enforced by the 
Chancellor's decree. It was determined to furnish the 
rector with a glebe, and a lottery scheme was carried 
through with great enthusiasm, for the purchase of the 
farm of William Creed, a mile west of the village, at a cost 
of £800. It contained seventy-eight acres of arable land, 
orchard, and buildings which needed repair and improve- 
ment, which cost the Rev. Mr. Bloomer £79, I9s. 9d. The 
glebe was not a success and it was soon advertised for sale. 

On Easter Tuesday, 1773, the Vestry voted to purchase 
a pall, for funerals, for the use of which 4s. should be paid 
by those who did not subscribe, and the Sexton to deduct 
from it one shilling for his care and furnishing it. This 
was the beginning of a valuable record by Mr. Aaron Van 
Nostrand, which is preserved in this history, for informa- 
tion nowhere else to be obtained as to dates and persons 
buried in Jamaica. It contains ll(y entries of interments 
and funeral bills, for the fees for which the Sexton ac- 
counted to the Vestry. 

Mr. Bloomer continued in charge through the trying 
period of the Revolution, in which many of his people were 



OF GRACE CHURCH 97 

involved in great troubles through arrests and confiscations 
of property; but, though often prevented from conducting 
services, he continued to administer as frequently as pos- 
sible the sacraments of holy communion and baptism. 
When the principal members of his congregation at Ja- 
maica refused to obey the decrees of Congress, and were 
imprisoned and detained for several weeks, Mr. Bloomer 
writes: 'i administered the sacrament at Newtown, where 
I had but four or five male communicants, the rest being 
driven off or carried away prisoners. 1 was forbidden to 
read the prayers for the King and Royal Family. On con- 
sulting my Wardens and Vestry, rather than omit any 
portion of the liturgy, we shut up our Church for five Sun- 
days: but on the arrival of the King's troops, services were 
resumed, and in 1777 1 had sixty-six communicants, and 
since my last letter have baptized 24 infants and 2 adults." 

In 1781, he was still holding the interest and affection of 
his congregation, and hafl baptized 29 infants and two 
adults and married thirteen couples. This was his last 
report. 

The prayer book used by Rev. Mr. Bloomer, in Flushing, 
during the Revolutionary period, is still preserved in St. 
George's Church. Compelled at last to pray for Congress 
and the Presidents, he pasted the prayer in manuscript over 
the one for the King. 

Mr. Bloomer, with singular fidelity, courage and self- 
restraint, maintained his position as a loyal minister of the 
Church of England, when the passions of war were raging 
in the hearts of men around him, and his parishes were 
alternately in the possession of forces of England, and of 
the Rebellion, 



98 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

A chapter of grievances of the Clergy in Long Island and 
New York at the hand of patriots of the American Revolu- 
tion could be easily written. The steadfast loyalists had to 
suffer the fortunes of war when it ended in the triumph of 
the patriots, who, through the whole extent of Long Island, 
had been driven from their homes during its occupation by 
the British troops. After the 7000 or 8000 British troops 
had been removed, most of whom were in camps and bar- 
racks in the parishes of Jamaica, Hempstead, Newtown 
and Flushing, there was an emigration of loyalists to 
Canada. In 1782-3 there were more than 3000 persons 
carried to New Brunswick, Canada, from Queens County, 
in one fleet of twenty square-rigged vessels. They founded 
the City of St. John. 

New York was specially bitter against the loyalists. The 
Committee of Safety compelled unconforming clergy- 
men of the Church of England to close or leave their 
churches if they would not omit the prayers for the King 
and Royal family. Those who were found aiding the 
British officers and soldiers, or denouncing the patriots, 
were arrested and exiled. The sufferings of their families, 
through the loss of their homes and effects, was very great. 
Their churches closed, their property destroyed, their 
friends and sympathizers exiled, and their neighbors hos- 
tile and making them obnoxious to the community by their 
accusations, there was no hope left of favor or returning 
prosperity in the Province. The members of the Church 
of England specially suffered in New York. Although 
many of the Dutch had opposed the war, they were not 
persecuted nor their homes nor churches violated. No 
injury was done to them. 

Rev. Charles Inglis, in a long letter to the Society, from 
New York, writes, in illustration of the spirit of the times: 



OF GRACE CHURCH 99 

"Soon after Washington's arrival, he attended our 
Church: but on Sunday morning before Divine Service 
began, one of the rebel Generals called at the rector's 
house, (supposing the latter was in town) and, not finding 
him left word that he came to inform the rector that Gen- 
eral Washington would be glad if the violent prayers for 
the King and Royal family were omitted. This message 
was brought to me, and as you may suppose, I paid no 
regard to it. 

"On seeing that General long after, I remonstrated 
against the unreasonableness of his request, which he must 
know the Clergy could not comply with: and told him fur- 
ther, that it was in his power to shut up our churches, but 
by no means in his power to make the clergy depart from 
their duty. This declaration drew from him an awkward 
apology for his conduct, which I believe was not author- 
ized by Washington."* 

Rev. Mr. Inglis states that on May 17, 1776, appointed 
by Congress as a day of public fasting, prayer and humilia- 
tion throughout the Continent, not only the Church in 
New York, but all but two in the Province, and so far as 
he could learn, "throughout all the thirteen Colonies as 
they are called, were opened on this occasion." 

He continued: "Matters became now critical in the high- 
est degree; the rebel army amounted to near 30,000. All 
their cannon and military stores were drawn hither, and 
they boasted that the place was impregnable. I have fre- 
quently heard myself called a Tory, and traitor to my 
Country, as I passed the streets, and epithets joined to 
each, which decency forbids me to set down. Violent 

*Hawkin's Historical Notices of the Missions of the Church of 
England, p. 333. 



100 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

threats were thrown against us, in case the King were any 
longer prayed for. One Sunday when I was officiating, 
and had proceeded some length in the service, a company 
of about one hundred armed rebels marched into the 
church, with drums beating and fifes playing, their guns 
loaded and bayonets fixed, as if going to battle. The con- 
gregation was thrown into the utmost terror, and several 
women fainted, expecting a massacre was intended. I 
took no notice of them, and went on with the service, only 
exerted my voice, which was in some measure drowned by 
the noise and tumult. The rebels stood thus in the aisle 
for near fifteen minutes, till being asked into the pews by 
the sexton, they complied; still, however, the people ex- 
pected that, when the collects for the King and royal 
family were read, I should be fired at, as menaces to that 
purpose had been frequently flung out. The matter, how- 
ever, passed over without any accident. Nothing of this 
kind happened before or since, which made it more re- 
markable. I was afterwards assured that something hostile 
and violent was intended; but He that stills the raging of 
the sea, and madness of the people, overruled their pur- 
pose, whatever it was." 

After the Declaration of Independence, which occurred 
about two months after this event, the Clergy closed their 
churches in New York and vicinity, having been requested 
by the Committee of Safety to take down the King's arms, 
to avoid their destruction by a mob. They refused to open 
their Churches at the request of rebel officers, that they 
might have services there. After the occupation of the 
city by the British forces under General Howe, the 
Churches were all opened and Divine Service given for 
the rejoicing citizens who were left in the city. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 101 

But the same week the rebels succeeded in destroying 
1000 houses or one-fourth of the city by fire. Trinity 
Church, the rector's house, and the Charity School were 
burned and about 200 buildings belonging to Trinity Cor- 
poration, were consumed at a loss of £25,000 sterling. 

The missionaries were unable to draw their salaries, or 
to receive other money sent to their relief from England. 
All communications by letter were cut off, Messrs. Sea- 
bury, Bloomer and Cutting were mentioned as the only 
ones who could be relieved from the distress which came 
upon all the other clergy in the Colonies from this failure 
of their salaries. 

Rev. Mr. Bloomer sent the last report of Grace Church 
to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1784. 
The last grant of £30 was made by the Society Feb. 20, 
1784. 

The revolt of the American Colonies had scattered the 
Clergy representing the Society. Many gave up their 
missions, returning to England or becoming refugees in 
the towns of the northern colonies, or in Canada. A few 
took the oath of allegiance to the Republic. After the 
acknowledgment of the Independence of the United States 
the charter of the Society did not allow the continued sup- 
port of missions outside the British Dominion. 

The report of the Society for 1785 expresses the deep 
regret of its officers and members in parting with the 
clergy and the Churches for whom they had made many 
prayers and sacrifices of time and money. The report 
says: 

"It is so far from their thoughts to alienate their affec- 
tions from their brethren of the Church of England, now 



102 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

under another government, that they look back, with 
comfort at the good they have done, for many years past, 
in propagating our holy religion, as it is professed by the 
Established Church of England, and it is their earnest wish 
and prayer that their zeal may continue to bring forth the 
fruit they aimed at, of pure religion and virtue: and that 
the true members of our Church, under whatever civil 
government they live, may not cease to be kindly aflfec- 
tioned towards us." 

When the war was declared between England and the 
Colonies, the Society were contributing an average sum 
of £40 sterling a year each to nearly eighty missionaries. 
These were widely scattered as well as impoverished. 
"Some of the clergy were eventually appointed to Chap- 
laincies in the King's army; others were provided with 
missions in Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick: 
some went to England, whilst a few, who were recom- 
mended for long service, or disabled by age and infirmity, 
were allowed a small annuity by the Society."* 

The clerical and lay deputies of the Church in sundry 
of the United States of America made this grateful ac- 
knowledgment to the Archbishops and Bishops of the 
Church of England, in an address, dated Oct. 5, 1785: 

"All the Bishops of England, with other distinguished 
characters, as well ecclesiastical as civil, have concurred 
in forming and carrying on the benevolent views of the 
Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts: a 
Society to whom under God, the prosperity of our church 
is, in an eminent degree, to be ascribed. It is our earnest 
wish to be permitted to make, through your lordships, this 
just acknowledgment to that Venerable Society." 

*Hawkin's Notices, p. 343, 345. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 103 

The separation of the Society from Churches in Jamaica 
and Newtown was the beginning of new struggles for 
existence. The very name of the Church of England as 
associated with them was a discredit in the new order of 
society under the Republic. The support of the English 
Army men who had been stationed in Long Island was 
missed. The devastations of war had been going on 
around the Churches, which were greatly out of repair, 
and yet the members of the parishes were too impover- 
ished and discouraged with their own affairs to renew 
them without great effort. 

The rector, Rev. Doctor Bloomer, however, remained, 
and was personally greatly esteemed. In the summer of 
1786, in accordance with the resolution of the Church 
Wardens and Vestry of Grace Church, at their annual 
meeting, a subscription was made by twenty of the parish- 
ioners amounting to £42; 5s. for shingling, painting, and 
other necessary repairs "for rendering the church decent 
and fit for public worship." 

In 1788 there was expended by Mr. Bloomer in repair- 
ing the glebe £83, 13s., lid. The money received from 
collections, pall and bell, from 1775 to 1782 was £148, 
l5s., 2d. The church held bonds of individuals amount- 
ing to £248, l3s., drawing interest at 6 per cent. 

The Communion offerings for five years, from 1775 to 
1790, amounted to £80, 7s., 1 d. 

In 1 790, a few months before his death, the degree of 
Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon Mr. Bloomer by 
Columbia College. Doctor Bloomer died June 23, 1790, 
at the age of fifty-five, sincerely regretted and respected 
by all the people to whom he ministered. He was buried 
in the chancel, but his grave is unmarked. 



104 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

The conditions of living in the period when Rev. Mr. 
Bloomer was rector in Jamaica have been, with great 
inquiry and research, described in the history of Flush- 
ing by Rev. Henry D. Waller. 

The communications with New York were slow and 
uncertain, and were generally by way of Brooklyn. The 
ferries were accomplished in row-boats, scows, or two- 
masted vessels that required, with favorable wind and 
tide, an hour for the passage. There was no post-office 
on Long Island. A private post rider went down the 
island and back once in two weeks. The dress of the 
gentry was, for men the short knee breeches, pointed toe 
shoes with large buckles, and a long-tailed, light-colored 
coat with silver buttons; for ladies, the dress was a full 
brocaded skirt, hung on large hoops, two feet wide on each 
side, a towering hat or a muskmelon buchet. The farm- 
er's homespun was changed on Sunday to a broadcloth 
suit that descended from father to son. He cultivated his 
fields with a wooden plow and reaped them with a scythe, 
and threshed them with a flail. The usual house was with- 
out paint or carpets, and the coarse plain food was pre- 
pared by the wife and daughter, whose constant compan- 
ions were the spinning-wheel and loom. The day laborer 
was dressed in yellow buckskin or leathern breeches and 
apron, checked shirt and red jacket, and heavy shoes with 
brass buckles. 

The debtor's prison was a frequent lodging place, where 
men and women herded together, and the criminal and 
debtor often perished without bed or clothing to cover 
them. The currency of the Colonies varied in the num- 
ber of shillings, and pence which made a dollar. The 
school-houses were small, and neither painted, ceiled nor 
plastered. The wood was furnished by farmers, and the 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



105 



boy pupils cut it, while the girls swept and scrubbed the 
school-room floor. There were few books, and the sums 
of arithmetic were copied into ciphering books by the 
pupils. There were neither steel pens, writing books nor 
ruled paper; the quill pens were made by the master and 
the sheets were ruled with a piece of lead. 

Jamaica was the shire town. All elections were held in 
Jamaica until 1789, for the neighboring towns of Queens 
County. 




Rood Screen. 

Memorial to Rev. Gilbert H. Sayres, S. T. D. 

By His Grandson, 

Gilbert B. Sayres, 1814. 



IV 

THE POST-REVOLUTIONARY 
REGTORSHIPS-1795-1896 



i 



OF GRACE CHURCH 109 



CHAPTER XI. 

Short Rectorships in a Period of Thirty-five Years— 

1795-1830. 

REV. WILLIAM HAMMELL. 

The Rev. William Hammell, from Hackensack, New 
Jersey, was the successor to Doctor Bloomer. He was 
elected Aug. 1, 1790, by the three Vestries of Jamaica, 
Flushing and Newtown, and was the last rector elected and 
supported conjointly by these Churches. He received 
Holy Orders as Deacon and Priest the same year of his 
election to Jamaica. The glebe had been sold, on account 
of a dispute between the three parishes, and the interest 
money, amounting to £25, was pledged to him and £90 
per year from the three towns. 

There were but 21 communicants in Grace Church, 27 
at Newtown, and 13 in Flushing. The Churches were 
weak and dispirited, the salary insufficient for the support 
of Mr. Hammell, who had married, infidelity prevailed in 
the communities, and political and personal rancor. The 
rector's eyesight failed him and he became paralytic after 
five years of his ministry. These distressing conditions 
led to his resignation, and a donation was made for Mr. 
Hammell by the three Churches for his temporary support. 
They also drew up a memorial to the Corporation of 
Trinity Church in his behalf. That Vestry subsequently 
gave him a pension of £100 per year, which was continued 
for thirty years till his death. 



iM 



110 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

An eflfort to settle Mr. Charles Seabury, son of Bishop 
Seabury, who had recently been ordained Deacon, was 
unsuccessful. Mr. Seabury served only six weeks on trial, 
when he received notice of his father's death at New Lon- 
don, and went home. He wrote from New London that 
he would not return to Jamaica. 



REV. ELIJAH DUNHAM RATOON. 

Rev. Elijah Dunham Ratoon succeeded to the rectorship 
of Grace Church and St. George's, Flushing, which still 
was supported conjointly by these Churches, while St. 
James, Newtown, had become independent in 1795. Mr. 
Ratoon was a graduate of Princeton College, and was or- 
dained Deacon Jan. 10, 1790. He married a daughter of 
Rev. Dr. Beech of New York, and for a short time minis- 
tered to St. Ann's Church, in Brooklyn. He was a Pro- 
fessor of ancient languages in Columbia College from 
1792 to 1797, and came from this position to Jamaica. 

The Church Wardens and Vestry of Grace Church made 
a joint arrangement with Trinity Church, New York, for 
the support of Mr. Ratoon, agreeing to ''give him the use 
and interest of £900 during the time he is rector and dis- 
charges the duties, and do covenant to raise annually £100 
by subscription for his maintenance, on condition that 
divine service is performed in our Church every other Sun- 
day during the three months and every Sunday morning 
during the remainder of the year." 

At a time when Grace Church seemed to be struggling 
for existence, so impoverished were the Churchmen of 
this period, and so inimical the spirit of the country to the 
Episcopal Church, which had inherited the rights and prop- 



OF GRACE CHURCH 111 

erty and associations of the Church of England, the Hon. 
Rufus King, a noted statesman and patriot, established his 
family in Jamaica. 

As a Vestryman of Trinity Church he had become inter- 
ested in the parish aflfairs. Grace Church had, from the 
beginning, often received her ministers and counsel in all 
her difficulties from the rectors and the staff of Trinity 
Church, and had been closely affiliated with the move- 
ments which were taken by Trinity to maintain and extend 
the influence of the Church in America. 

It was through the efforts of Mr. King that Trinity Cor- 
poration came to the aid of the Churches in Queens 
County, Jamaica, Newtown, Flushing and Hempstead. 
Trinity Church assigned to Grace Church £500 in securi- 
ties, which were added to a similar fund of £60 which 
Grace Church already possessed, forming the nucleus of a 
fund which has continued to increase. Three city lots 
were also given, which in a short time yielded rentals and 
became very valuable. Similar donations were made to 
St. George's and St. James Churches with a forethought 
that contributed to their subsequent endowment and large 
efficiency. 

A Church glebe was bought at a cost of £300, and £100 
additional was invested in repairs. It had a small house 
and stable, and was rented at £24 a year. This land was 
on the Flushing road in the rear of the Town Hall. An 
effort was made to put the Church funds in a better condi- 
tion, interest having accrued on bonds unpaid for from ten 
to fifteen years. These bonds were settled and the funds 
increased by a legacy of £100 from Miss Sarah Depeyster, 

The salary of Mr. Ratoon was $500, with the use of a 
glebe and the interest on about $4,500. The rector's 



112 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

home stood on the high land between Jamaica and Flush- 
ing, on the main road to Flushing, now occupied by one 
of the reformatory institutions of New York City, with 
extensive buildings erected nearly a century later. The 
rectory was then a new house, 44x30 feet, two stories and 
a half high. It was surrounded by 1 10 acres in farm land, 
with extensive orchards of fruit trees, among which were 
1200 peach trees. The house commanded a view of New- 
town, Flushing, the Sound, Westchester and the Jersey 
shore, and was approached through a stately avenue of 
trees. 

The Right Rev. Samuel Provost was then Bishop of New 
York, and Grace Church was represented by three dele- 
gates in the Diocesan Convention. There she stood as 
second only to Trinity Church, in age of organization, in 
the Diocese. 

In the summer of 1 799, the interior of the Church build- 
ing was painted entirely white, with top rails to the pews 
of mahogany color, and the steeple was raised. Blinds 
were put upon the exterior two years later, and with an 
able rector and renewed church building the century's 
work was hopefully inaugurated. 

The original Stone Church of Jamaica built in 1699, a 
hundred years earlier, and over the possession of which 
were such hot contentions, was still standing in the high- 
way. It was in such good condition that it could be used 
on Feb. 22, 1800, for anniversary exercises commemor- 
ating the birthday and eminent virtues of the late Presi- 
dent, George Washington. In this celebration the Rev. 
Mr. Ratoon took part, and Mr. L. A. Eigenbrodt delivered 
the oration. He was the father of the Rev. Samuel R. 
Eigenbrodt, D. D., a professor of the General Theological 




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Seminary, and the donor of its stately dormitory, Ei^en- 
brodt Hall. 

That Church was not taken down till 1818, when all the 
relics of burials within its walls were removed to the village 
cemetery. 

The acceptable and prospering ministry of Mr. Ratoon 
was, unhappily to Grace Church, not long continued. He 
resigned his rectorship June 4, 1802, and went to take 
charge of St. Paul's Church, Baltimore. He subsequently 
became President of Charleston College, South Carolina, 
where he died of yellow fever in 1810. 

The Church was much discouraged by Mr. Ratoon's 
departure. There were nearly a hundred names on the 
subscription lists for salary in the next eight years, but 
Grace Church did not thrive. Political contentions were 
rife, and reacted on religious conditions. There were 
£1,126 available funds, for the support of the Church. 
Offerings were taken for the support of the two Bishops, 
Right Reverends Benjamin Moore, and John Henry 
Hobart, and the Missionary Society of the Diocese. Yet 
there were only thirty baptisms in the ten years which 
began the century. The first confirmation service held in 
Jamaica was by Bishop Moore, who on Oct. 15, 1808, 
confirmed thirty persons. On July 3, 1814, at a visitation 
of Bishop Hobart, twenty-three were added to the com- 
municants of the Church. 

In 1803 the Vestry adopted a resolution that the holders 
of pews in the Church should give a reasonable compensa- 
tion for the support of the Church, and that where sittings 
in a pew were not used by one family they should accom- 
modate another family or individuals, who would be 



114 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

agreeable. There were thirty-one pews besides four in the 
belfry for the blacks. 

In Onderdonk's "Antiquities" are recorded the names of 
the pew holders at the beginning of the Nineteenth Cen- 
tury, through which with remarkable persistence and stead- 
fastness for a hundred years, their descendants, with but 
few exceptions, maintained their connection and promi- 
nence in Grace Church. 

Among these families were the names of Welling, Hicks, 
Puntine, Betts, Troup, Waters, Eldert, Eigenbrodt, Nos- 
trand, Morris, Depeyster, Codwise, Christopher Smith, 
Rufus King, Hendrickson, Rowland, Underbill, Dunn, 
Oldfield, Valentine, Simonson, Kissam, Hewlett, Skid- 
more, Cortelyou, Lawrence, Mackrell. Pews were occu- 
pied by two schools, Mr. Eigenbrodt with tutors and 
students in front, and Miss Woofendale and scholars in the 
center of the Church. 



REV. CALVIN WHITE AND OTHERS. 

The eight years which followed upon the resignation of 
Mr. Ratoon were a period of dissatisfaction with the six 
different clergymen who were chosen as ministers or 
rectors. 

Rev. Calvin White was the first of these to whom the 
oft'er of the rectorship was made, with a salary of $S00 
and the use of the glebe. Much care had been taken in 
the selection of this clergyman. He was ordained Deacon 
June 28, 1798, and was asked to take charge of Grace 
Church in November, 1802. He had been a minister of 
the Presbyterian Church at Hanover, N. J., and was mar- 



OF GRACE CHURCH 115 

ried to Miss Phebe Camp of Newark, during that ministry, 
on Oct. 28, 1792. 

The terms of Mr. White's settlement occasioned consid- 
erable correspondence and discussion, and were finally 
made to conform to those of Mr. Ratoon's ministry, and he 
was formally inducted as rector July 21, 1803, by Rev. 
Mr. Hobart of Flushing and Newtown, and Rev. Seth Hart, 
of Hempstead, and Rev. Mr. William Harris, of St. Mark's, 
New York. 

Mr. White, with all this careful inauguration of his min- 
istry, was not in harmony with the parish. He was an 
accomplished scholar and skilled in Hebrew studies, but 
was not sufficiently in sympathy with the doctrines of the 
Episcopal Church. He left Grace Church abruptly to take 
another Church, Aug. 17, 1804. He continued in the 
Episcopal ministry until 1822, when he was deposed at 
Derby, Connecticut, where he resided quietly as a layman 
near the Church to which he had ministered. He died at 
Derby at the age of ninety, leaving a son, the distinguished 
literary scholar and critic, Richard Grant White. 

The clergymen who had short terms of ministry in Grace 
Church for the next six years were: Revs. George Stre- 
beck, Andrew Fowler, John Ireland, Edmund D. Barry, 
Timothy Clowes. 

They were chosen for six months or a year, but some of 
them did not continue in their ministry for even the short 
periods for which they were invited. 



116 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



CHAPTER XII. 

The Rectorship of Rev. Gilbert Hunt Say res— 1810-1830. 

A period of twenty years was covered by the prosperous 
rectorship of the Rev. Gilbert Hunt Sayres, S. T. D., who 
received a unanimous election to the rectorship of Grace, 
Church, May 1,1810. Mr. Sayres was not then in priest's' 
orders. He was a native of New Jersey, a graduate of 
Columbia College, 1808, and studied for the ministry with 
Rev. Dr. Lyell of New York. Having been made deacon 
by Bishop Moore, Oct. 6, 1809, he did not receive his 
priest's orders from Bishop John Henry Hobart until Feb. 
27, 1812. In 1863 he was honored by the degree of 
Doctor of Sacred Theology, from Columbia College. His 
ministry continued for the same period as the episcopate 
of Bishop Hobart, who was consecrated in 1811, and who 
died Sept., 1830, the year of Dr. Sayres' resignation. 
The prosperity of that episcopate seemed to be shared by 
Grace Church and parish, which were blessed with the 
ministrations of a studious, devout, sympathetic and char- 
itable man, with social tastes and companionships, which 
made him an acceptable pastor and friend. 

Dr. Sayres did not cease his life of doing good after he 
retired from the rectorship. He lived in Jamaica, a be- 
nevolent, scholarly man, for thirty-seven years. He re- 
ceived his honorary degree at the age of seventy-six and 
died at eighty years, on April 27, 1867. 

Mr. Sayres was brought up under the influence of a 
godly mother, who was a member of the Friends Society, 




Rev. Gilp.ert Hunt Sayres, S. T. D.. Rector i8 10-1830. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 117 

but he early sought the preachers of other churches in New 
York, and was so impressed by their eloquence and doc- 
trines, that he changed his views and forsook the religious 
convictions of his mother to take up the more evangelical 
doctrines of the Presbyterian divine, Dr. Milledoler, the 
pastor of the Rutgers Street Church. From these he 
passed on to more liberal teachings of the Episcopal 
Church. But his mother was a strict and conscientious 
Friend, and was so deeply grieved at her son's straying 
from her guidance in his religious views that "she could 
never attend his public ministrations, though otherwise 
she had all a mother's affection for him." 

'Though a staunch, true and evangelical churchman. 
Dr. Sayres, in his ministry and private demeanor, em- 
braced the whole Christian family in the arms of charity, 
but was outspoken against intemperance, war, slavery and 
Romanism. He was emphatically the Christian gentle- 
man." — (H. Onderdonk.) 

Grace Church engaged Mr. Sayres to officiate for them 
when he was sought for by other churches. They agreed 
to pay him seven hundred and fifty dollars annually, in 
two equal payments, with provision for six months' notice, 
should a separation be desired by the Church or the rector. 

The total income of the Church during the first year, 
18H, including interest on invested funds, was $904.84, 
of which only one-third was paid in subscriptions and 
collections. 

There was an average of about sixty pew holders during 
Dr. Sayres' ministry from the whole township of Jamaica, 
for there were no other Episcopal churches then to divide 
the attendance of Churchmen with Grace Church. 



118 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

The Church building was much out of repair, and early 
in his ministry there was much discussion in the Vestry, of 
measures to enlarge it and put it in order. It had served 
the congregation a good part of a century. The more 
courageous of the pewholders desired a new Church build- 
ing to be erected. Those who had survived the struggles 
of Grace Church before and after the period of the Revo- 
lution, when they had been dependent on the co-operation 
of other Churches in Long Island and in New York, ad- 
vised another appeal for help. Subscription lists at home 
were at first discouraging, and nothing was done in Church 
building beyond necessary repairs. 

In the Spring of 1820 the Vestry voted to repair and 
enlarge the Church, adding fourteen feet to the west end, 
and building a new steeple. A memorial was drawn up 
and read to the congregation by the rector. A gift of 
$1,000 was received from Trinity Church Corporation 
and a subscription of nearly $3,000 more was made for 
building a new Church. 

The Vestry then voted to use funds invested in the hands 
of Trinity Church and elsewhere, and make a loan of $750 
for this purpose. 

Of the subscriptions there were two for $500 each, two 
for $300, one for $150, and three for $100. The rest 
were in smaller sums from $50 to $10, so thatlo the 
Diocesan Convention in 1821, Bishop Hobart could report: 

"The congregation of Jamaica, with a commendable 
zeal for the Gospel and Church of Christ, are now engaged 
in erecting a new commodious, and very neat edifice on 
the site of the old one demolished for this purpose. It is 
expected, if the Lord will, to be ready for consecration 
early in the ensuing Spring." — (H. Onderdonk.) 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



119 



There was no architect employed in building this 
Church, but three of the most prominent of the congrega- 
tion, Messrs. Rufus King, Timothy Nostrand and L, E. A. 
Eigenbrodt, assisted the carpenters in making the plan and 
directing the construction. 




CftACE CHURCH, JAMAICA/ 

CaoMCTate4 July .I5> }822. 

The new Church covered some graves, the tombstones 
of which were set up under the Church. The building, 
"remarkably neat and handsome," as Bishop Hobart de- 
scribed it, was consecrated by him on July 15, 1822. It 
was particularly recommended as having ''a chancel, desk,. 
and pulpit so conveniently arranged as to accommodate all 
the worshippers with a full view of the chancel." 



120 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Mr. Sayres was instituted rector Oct. 30, 18 19. He had 
shown himself to be a man of large views as to the 
religious needs of the world. He was one of the founders 
of the American Bible Society. This was a notable evi- 
dence of his liberal spirit. He also was a strong upholder 
of the Church's influence, from which he had received his 
ordination to the ministry of the Gospel of Christ. Early 
in that ministry, on June 29, 181 5, there was a meeting 
in Grace Church, of the clergymen and laity of the Protes- 
tant Episcopal Church, called to form a Society to dis- 
tribute the Bible and Common Prayer Book. The remark- 
able record of this Society, which has entered so largely 
into the missionary work of the Church in the whole world, 
was widely made known at the centenary celebration in 
Trinity Church on April 14, 1909, in which bishops and 
priests of the Church in the United States and in the Greek 
and Armenian missionary fields, and high dignitaries of 
Oriental churches, participated. For her part in its or- 
ganization, Grace Church was represented near the head of 
the procession, by the rector acting as one of the Chaplains 
to Bishop Courtney, the representative of the Bishop of 
London. 

Under Mr. Sayres, there was a larger number of bap- 
tisms than had previously been recorded, and the services 
of a Bishop to administer the rite of confirmation were 
quite frequently employed. It was a time of growth in 
neighboring churches in Long Island. On the day pre- 
vious to the consecration of the new Church at Jamaica, 
Bishop Hobart confirmed sixty persons in St. George's 
Church, in Flushing. 

Two especially notable churchmen, during the ministry 
of Dr. Sayres, were active in the aflfairs of the Church and 
parish, the Hon. Rufus King and Lewis E. A. Eigenbrodt, 




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OF GRACE CHURCH 121 

LL. D. Both of these gentlemen died during Mr. Sayres' 
pastorate. Mr. King died April 29, 1827, and Mr. Eigen- 
brodt, August 30, 1828. 

Hon. Rufus King was early distinguished as a delegate 
to Congress from Massachusetts in 1784. He had a short 
military service in the Revolutionary War, and took a 
leading part in the political measures and discussions which 
sustained it. He was a prominent member of the Consti- 
tutional Convention in 1787, and of the Massachusetts 
Convention, \7^7-\72>^, which ratified the Federal Con- 
stitution of which he was one of the signers from Massa- 
chusetts. Under the administrations of Presidents John 
Adams and John Quincy Adams, he was Minister to the 
Court of St. James, and represented New York as Senator 
in Congress for two complete terms. 

The New York Evening Post at the time of Mr. King's 
decease lamented the departure "of another of our oldest 
statesmen, the favorite of Washington; one whom his soul 
loved; one in whom he wholly confided; one who rendered 
the most invaluable service in organizing and sustaining 
the early and difficult measures of the government: one 
who has been rarely equalled for talents equally profound 
and brilliant: and who, in his meridian, was numbered 
among the brightest stars in the galaxy of his country's 
glory."— (H. Onderdonk.) 

Mr. King died at seventy-one years of age, in New York, 
and was buried from his mansion in Jamaica, without 
pomp, but in the presence of many distinguished associates. 

The nation scarcely fifty years old might well take note 
of the departure from earth of one who valiantly supported 
its Declaration of Independence, shared its struggles and 
battles to make that declaration stand to all the world, and 



122 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

all generations. The ample grounds of the King Manor 
were filled with an impressive concourse of people. The 
customs of those days permitted without comment the 
distribution of segars, tobacco and wine for the refresh- 
ment of those who came from long distances over unpaved 
roads. The solemn scenes of such a burial may have been 
relieved of their sadness and yet no more sincere regrets 
were ever felt or expressed by a community for a distin- 
guished citizen. 

He was a Warden from 1805 to 1812, a number of 
years successively, of Grace Church, and for twelve years 
also Warden of Trinity Church, New York. To him was 
largely due the interest and repeated aid of that church 
which so materially aflfected the condition of Grace 
Church. His son, the Hon. John A. King, distinguished as 
a Governor of New York, was also, after the death of his 
father, a communicant and active member of Grace 
Church before the long rectorship of Dr. Sayres was ended. 

Mr. Lewis E. A. Eigenbrodt was also Warden, at the 
same time with Mr. Rufus King. He was an accomplished 
teacher of youth in Jamaica, and the founder of a noted 
family long connected with Grace Church and supporters 
of its ministry, and activities. 

His son. Rev. William Ernest Eigenbrodt, D. D., was 
professor of pastoral theology in the General Seminary, 
New York City, and the donor of the elegant Eigenbrodt 
Hall, of that institution. 

The elder Mr. Eigenbrodt was not only Warden for 
eleven years, but for some time Clerk and Treasurer of 
Grace Church. For thirty-nine years he was principal of 
Union Hall Academy, and by his elegance in writing and 



OF GRACE CHURCH 123 

speech, impressed his scholars with his learning, wisdom 
and also by his exemplary character. 

The resignation of the rectorship by Dr. Sayres was 
occasioned by increasing physical infirmities which pre- 
vented him from conducting the services acceptably. The 
necessity of this approaching separation from his work 
was made apparent some years before, and a mutual 
agreement was entered into by rector and parish for a term 
of years when the relation would terminate. 

When it transpired, the Vestry made an appropriation 
of $100 annually for five years towards his support. 

It was the thoughtful care and generous aid of the rector 
who followed Dr. Sayres, which mitigated the great trials 
which the cessation of his ministerial offices brought upon 
this venerable successor and servant of Jesus Christ. After 
the death of his successor there was revealed the sacrifices 
which had been made by him in behalf of this brother in 
the ministry, for whose sake he endured undeserved criti- 
cism in the use of his salary. 

The Rev. Doctor Sayres long survived his rectorship. 
He died at the advanced age of eighty years, during the 
rectorship of Rev. William Lupton Johnson, D. D., suit- 
ably honored for his services as a minister of the Gospel, 
as an exemplary Christian citizen, and as a long-settled 
rector of Grace Church. The commendations publicly 
given by the distinguished clergy of New York who were 
present at the funeral services, and by the Wardens and 
Vestrymen of Grace Church, were remarkable testimonials 
to his character and the value of his services to the Church. 
The funeral was held at Grace Church on May 1, 1867. 
The day was stormy, but there was a large concourse of 
clergy and citizens. The Rev. Dr. Johnson, rector, was 



124 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

assisted by Rev. Mr. Pearson of Rockaway, and Rev. J. 
Carpenter Smith of Flushing. Episcopal clergymen and 
two Church Wardens, Ex-Governor King and Judge Cogs- 
well, were pall-bearers. Six Vestrymen, Messrs. Brenton, 
Napier, Denton, Johnson, Vandeverg and Valentine car- 
ried the plain mahogany coffm in which their aged rector 
lay clothed in his clerical vestments. The stores and busi- 
ness places in Jamaica were closed and the Church draped 
in mourning. 

The resolutions of the clergy in their meeting, of which 
Rev. Wm. M. Carmichael was Secretary, gave thanks to 
God, that their venerable and beloved brother. Rev. Gil- 
bert H. Sayres, D. D., was enabled through grace to adorn 
the doctrine of God our Savior, as a wise, prudent, learned, 
holy, faithful minister for more than half a century; that 
while naturally of a meek and unobtrusive temperament, 
he was ever the bold, firm, decided, uncompromising advo- 
cate of righteousness and truth; that although he was laid 
aside from the active duties of the ministry for nearly forty 
years, yet he was always ready to counsel the weak and 
erring, as well as to sympathize with the poor and needy 
to the best of his ability; that he has left behind him a 
record, not only of untiring faithfulness and devotion to 
his work, but a multitude of witnesses to attest the power 
and value of his ministrations in winning souls to Christ; 
in short that he has passed away, as we can testify, amidst 
the tears and regrets of the entire community in which his 
life was spent, and has finally fallen asleep in Jesus, full 
of years and honor, to receive a crown of glory eternal in 
the Heavens." 

The Vestry resolutions gave expression to their un- 
feigned sorrow and regret for the "loss of one of the oldest 
and ablest ministers of the Church, to bear their grateful 



OF GRACE CHURCH 125 

testimony to the pure and gentle character of a clergyman, 
venerable for his age, eminent for his learning, his piety, 
and for the soundness of his church principles." The sim- 
plicity of his life and manners was ever in unison with the 
Gospel he preached, and during a long life of varied health 
won for him the alTection and confidence of this congre- 
gation and of every true Christian. 

Doctor Sayres was buried in Grace Churchyard. He 
was born Dec. 13, 1787, in Westfield, N. J. He married 
Eliza Maria Brown, May 30, 1810. He died April 27, 
1867, having lived to see most of their large family come 
to maturity. Their children were Jane Hewlett, Rev. 
George, Gilbert, John Tillotson, Isaac, Rev. Samuel Wood- 
ward, formerly Rector St. John's Church, Far Rockaway, 
L. I., Lydia Stewart, wife of Dr. Charles H. Barker, Wil- 
liam Johnson, and Eliza Maria. 

Of these. Rev. George Sayres, Eliza Maria, Jane, and 
Gilbert Sayres, Esq., of the New York Bar, lived and died 
citizens of Jamaica. Two of Gilbert's family also con- 
tinued to represent their grandfather in Jamaica for many 
years with his widow, Anna Leah Sayres. These were 
Elizabeth, the wife of James R. Lake, and Gilbert Barker 
Sayres, Vice-President of the Metropolitan Bank, New 
York. 

The older son. Rev. William Seaman Sayres, was a 
graduate of Dartmouth College, 1876. He also received 
the degree of Doctor of Divinity from this college. He 
went to China as a Missionary of the Board of Missions, 
having been ordained Deacon by Bishop Niles of New 
Hampshire. He took the Chair of Mathematics in St. 
John's College, Shanghai, and remained in China until 



126 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

May, 1885. Returning in 1885 to America, Doctor Sayres 
became General Missioner of the Diocese of Michigan. 

The rest of this family were Mary Regina, Annie Eliza, 
and Lydia. 

James Jahleel Brenton, prominent in the vestry of 
Grace Church, was descended from William Brenton, a 
representative of Boston from 1635, Lieutenant-Governor 
of Rhode Island before 1660, and Governor from 1666 
to 1669, who died, 1674, at Newport. He came to Jamaica 
in 1835, where he established the Long Island Democrat. 
In 1854 he was chosen Vestryman, and in 1868 he suc- 
ceeded John A. King as Warden. He was also Treasurer 
of the Church for some years. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 127 



CHAPTER XIII. 

The Long Rectorship of William Lupton Johnson, D. D., 

—1830-1870. 

The most important period of the history of Grace 
Church during the second century of its life, is marked by 
the ministry of the Rev. William Lupton Johnson, D. D. 
It was twice as long as that of Rev. Dr. Sayres, which 
preceded it, and was the most extended and fruitful in its 
results of all of the rectorships of two hundred years. If 
began in February, 1830, and ended in his death, Aug. 8, 
1870. These forty years were also the most momentous 
part of the Nineteenth Century to this nation. It was a 
time of political agitation and intense moral struggle in 
the minds and hearts of this people. Then followed the 
war for state rights and to establish slavery and oppression 
on one side, and to maintain the constitution and the 
Union on the other side. During this rectorship were the 
greatest religious movements of modern times and the 
development of education in our country in the great West 
and South, and to raise millions of slaves to an intelligence 
worthy of the freedom and civil rights conferred upon 
them. The most unselfish patriotism found expression, 
the largest missionary efforts were put forth, and the most 
extensive philanthropy attended upon the unequalled 
scientific, commercial and industrial progress attained after 
the Civil War. There were in the first ten years of Dr. 
Johnson's ministry only eighty-eight different pewholders 
in Grace Church, from the whole parish and township of 
Jamaica, where now there are ten Episcopal churches and 



128 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

missions holding regular services. The annual income at 
the end of twenty years of this pastorate (in 1850), in- 
cluding the interest on invested funds, was but $ 1606.32. 

Around Grace Church were gathering a number of in- 
telligent and vigorous families, of social respectability and 
financial ability, with an influence in affairs of the great 
city with which it was in more frequent association in 
business and in professional and political circles. 

Jamaica was developing trade with the central and 
western towns of Long Island, and was encouraging the 
work of good teachers and private schools. Out of the 
Toryism of the Revolutionary War which especially pre- 
vailed on Long Island, there had grown a conservative 
character in her citizens, and the Episcopalian part of the 
population had recovered large influence in the community. 

The Vestry were divinely guided in their selection of a 
successor to Dr. Sayres. Mr. Johnson was endowed with 
qualities that fitted him to be a leader in religious affairs. 
He was well educated and scholarly in his tastes. His 
ancestors lived in Brooklyn, and were of the Holland race, 
and his father. Rev. John Barent Johnson, was an elo- 
quent clergyman of the Dutch Reformed denomination in 
Albany in 1796, and pastor of the first Dutch Reformed 
Church in Brooklyn. Having been left an orphan, Wil- 
liam Lupton Johnson was taken in charge by an uncle, 
Mr. Peter Roosevelt, with his brother and sister, and 
moved to New York, to a house at the corner of Green- 
wich and Desbrosses Street, when Canal Street was a wide 
deep swamp, with only one house near it. He was placed 
under the tuition of Mr. Joseph Nelson, a noted blind 
teacher of Latin and Greek; and, in I8l5, entered Colum- 
bia College. He showed a decided literary taste with his 



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high scholarship in the languages, and began to contribute 
to the public journals. His classmate in Columbia College, 
George Washington Doane, became Bishop of New Jer- 
sey, the father of Bishop William Doane of Albany. Fin- 
ishing at the University in 18 19, he began to study law at 
the same time with Mr. Doane in the law office of Mr. 
Harrison, who was later Comptroller of Trinity Church. 
They both engaged in the Sunday School at St. John's, and 
in the evenings read Homer and Virgil together in the 
belfry of St. John's Chapel, till their late hours led to an 
investigation that disclosed their scholarly tastes and pur- 
suits. They soon wearied of the law and began to study 
for the ministry. Johnson entered the General Theological 
Seminary, and standing by it in its migrations and first 
unsuccessful years, was the first graduate of that institu- 
tion. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Hobart and 
became an assistant to Bishop Richard Channing Moore, in 
the Monumental Church at Richmond, Va. While there, 
Mr. Johnson was elected rector of St. Michael's Parish in 
Trenton, N. J., where his ministry was much esteemed and 
won both popularity and the affection of his people. 

At this time Timothy Nostrand and John Skidmore were 
Wardens of Grace Church, and Messrs. John Hoogland, 
Silas Roe, Johnathan Rowland, Samuel Welling, Lawrence 
Denton, Daniel Cornwell and John Van Nostrand were 
Vestrymen. They elected Mr. Johnson to the rectorship, 
which proved so happy to the people of Jamaica and to 
himself. "Here," said the Rev. Samuel J. Corneille, who 
had been for some years his assistant in Grace Church, 
"his life was an open book, without a page which all might 
not read. He was no Pharisee. He was just what he 
seemed to be, too gentle perhaps in some relations, but 
always loving, always lovable, always true. He almost 



130 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

reached his threescore years and ten; having served in the 
ministry nearly half a century, and only once did he seek 
in a foreign land that rest from mental toil which every 
pastor needs so much from time to time. He was a rapid 
composer and writer. His sermons were models of Eng- 
lish composition. As a churchman he was conservative, 
one of the old school of Theologians, who while they 
admitted the value of science and eloquence, and a pure 
development in ritual, still clung with inflexible tenacity to 
the ancient definitions of faith. He believed in one Catho- 
lic and Apostolic Church. His doctrine was sound; his 
orders he held to be as legitimate and sacred as any priest's 
on earth. He was to the end scholastic in his habits of 
thought, and even when his mind under feverish tenden- 
cies wandered a little towards the last, he quoted freely 
from English, Greek and Latin poets." 

With the undeveloped traits of such a character, Mr. 
Johnson entered upon his eventful service to Grace 
Church. When the forty years were ended the eulogies 
of his brethren in the ministry and of his people were em- 
phatic testimony to the use of his native talents and ac- 
quirements for the honor of his Lord. 

One of Mr. Johnson's Wardens, Mr. John Skidmore, 
said to him when he came to Jamaica, "Praise up your 
own Church as much as you please, but don't run down 
other denominations." 

This was good counsel, which Mr. Johnson was' well 
fitted by his temperament and disposition to follow. 

The same year, Sept. 24, 1830, occurred the death of 
the beloved and honored Bishop of the Diocese, Rt. Rev. 
John Henry Hobart. Grace Church was immediately 
draped in mourning and so continued till the Christmas 



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festival. The Church less than two years after, Jan. 2, 
1832, sustained the loss of the Senior Warden and Clerk 
and Treasurer for many years, Mr. Timothy Nostrand, and 
the Vestry offered resolutions of sympathy to his family. 
In 1833, by the sale of railroad stock, the Church was 
painted and otherwise repaired at a cost of $500. 

In 1835, Dec. 18, the Ladies' Missionary Society, organ- 
ized at the beginning of Mr. Johnson's rectorship, about 
1830, through Mrs. Mary E. Johnson gave an organ to 
the Church. This Society had also since its organization 
held two fairs, the first on July 4, 1832, and the second on 
Dec. 23, 1835, and thus raised $1,200, which was donated 
to missions. 

In November, 1835, Mr. Johnson was obliged to go to 
the south of France and Italy for his health, and after 
eight months of travel in Europe returned with marked 
improvement. 

He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity 
from Alleghany College. 

At the beginning of his rectorship Mr. Johnson was 
allowed a salary of $600. There was expended $100 a 
year for the previous rector's support, and $100 was 
divided between the organist, sexton, and organ-blower, 
one-half of which was given to the organist. 

Such straitened finances would well discourage an able 
minister. He was thought to be generous to a fault by his 
people, but they did not know, that for several years Mr. 
Johnson's entire salary was given to the aged retired 
rector. Doctor Sayres, and the patrimony which Mr. 
Johnson had received from his father's estate in New York 
was the insufficient but sole support of his own family. 



132 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Having been reproached for his manner of living and 
the appearance of his family, Mr. Johnson had to confess 
that he had not only in this way used up the income but 
the principal of his little property. Measures were taken 
after this was known which resulted in a better state of 
aft'airs for both families.* 

In 1839 so great was the comity of the churches in 
Jamaica that the Vestry of Grace Church passed resolu- 
tions of sorrow and sympathy on the death of the Rev. 
Elias W. Crane, minister of the Presbyterian Church in 
Jamaica. A copy of this resolution was sent to the Ses- 
sions of the Congregation and the widow. 

The next year $1,250, raised from the Church funds, 
and $300 by subscription, was expended in again repair- 
ing the Church. 

The Charter of the Church was changed the ensuing 
year, 1842, on petition to the Legislature, so that residents 
of Flushing or Newtown, if of full age, pewholders in 
Grace Church belonging to it for the last twelve months 
or received therein by baptism, confirmation, or receiving 
the communion, were allowed equal rights thereafter. 

Henry I. Hagner, Judge and Surrogate of Queens 
County, was a pewholder in Grace Church from 1830 to 
1839, and in 1842 was chosen Vestryman and Secretary. 
He continued either as Vestryman or Warden till 1849. 

There was during the next ten years a gradual increase 
of stipends for the rector and officials of the Church and 
parish. In l85o that of the rector was raised to $1,000, 
and in 1859 $100 was added to it, and that of the sexton 
and organist amounted to $100, while five per cent, of the 

*Rev. Joshua Kimber. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 133 

collections was given to the collector, and the Treasurer 
received $25. 

A baptismal font of Italian marble was donated to the 
Church by John A. King, Esq., in 1847, and the inside of 
the Church painted by the efforts of ladies of the congre- 
gation, and two years after a new organ was obtained for 
the Church by exchange and the sum of $1,300 additional. 

An important addition was made August 14, 1851, to the 
churchyard from Mr. John A. King's land, for sheds and a 
cemetery. The sheds were immediately built at a cost of 
$500. 

On Easter Tuesday, 1852, a resolution of sympathy was 
passed by the Vestry on the death of the Rev. Jacob 
Schoonmaker, D. D., for half a century the clergyman of 
the Reformed Dutch Church in Jamaica, ''whose life and 
services have been a practical example of the virtues, 
piety and charity which should ever adorn the character 
of a minister of the Church of Christ." 

The next year. May 30, Mr. Johnson's health was so 
much affected that the Vestry voted him a three months' 
absence and $300 for his expenses. The Vestry also pro- 
vided for his official duties by paying to the Rev. Mr. Croes 
one hundred and twenty dollars. The land east of the 
rector's burial plot up to the fence was given to him, and 
as a testimony of the integrity and services of Mr. Daniel 
Cornwell, the deceased collector, the old tankard of Grace 
Church was given to his widow. 

On April 13, 1852, Mr. Jeremiah Valentine was chosen 
Clerk of the Vestry and entered upon a long period of 
official services as a member of the Vestry and principal 
of the Sunday School. 



134 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

The latter was so prosperous, that by subscriptions of 
the congregation and appropriations of the Vestry, a Sun- 
day School building, 22x40 feet, was erected on land 5o 
ft. front by 72 feet deep, adjoining the horse sheds and 
given by Mr. John A. King, at a cost of $650. 

There was increasing interest in the music of the ser- 
vices. Organists were frequently changed, and the salary 
increased to $200, which was given to Mr. George C. 
Kissam in 1858, the successor to William J. Sayres. 

The Vestry again expressed their sympathy with those 
who were of other Church denominations. The Church 
of the Dutch Reformed Congregation was entirely de- 
stroyed by fire in Nov., 1857, and the Vestry offered seats 
free to all who would attend the services of Grace Church 
till their own was restored. 

Again in April, i860, the Vestry voted to clean, paint 
the walls and otherwise repair the Church building, adding 
more pews, and new carpets, and removing the old pulpit 
and desk. There was a gift of $200 by the ladies through 
Miss Anne Van Wyck, the proceeds of a fair, for stained 
glass windows, to which $100 more was added by the 
Vestry. Inside and outside the Church was put in fine 
condition at a cost of $1,000, obtained by a loan. It was 
reopened Aug. 26, with a grand Te Deum by the choir 
and a sermon by the rector. The Rev. Mr. Corneille, who 
read the service, was made assistant minister, at the re- 
quest of Dr. Johnson, Nov. 1, 1862. 

Five months later, after joyful services on Christmas 
day, the Church took fire on New Year's morning and was 
totally destroyed. 

The organ and all the furniture was burned. Treasured 
relics of the earliest history of the Church in Jamaica van- 



OF GRACE CHURCH 135 

ished in the flames. There were two tablets presented by 
Archbishop Tenison, as the gift of Queen Anne, containing 
the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed and the 
Lord's Prayer, the graceful communion table of English 
oak, the vestments, the Bible, and Prayer Book, hallowed 
by a century and a half of worship, and the Church bell, 
cast in 1748, and weighing 400 pounds which was broken 
and melted, but the Queen's arms were rescued, and the 
silver vessels were happily not in the Church and preserved. 

The fire broke out at three o'clock in the morning; it 
was ascribed to a defective flue. The Church was built of 
wood and valued at $10,000. An insurance of $6,000, 
recently taken out on Church and organ was all that was 
left with which to build again. Even the headstones of 
graves beneath the Church were crumbled to pieces by 
the heat. The loss, keenly felt by rector and people, was 
a call to energetic action by the parish. Their tears over 
so many sacred and tender recollections were wiped away, 
and committees appointed to obtain plans for a new edifice, 
subscriptions for the building, and memorial gifts for the 
appointments of a new sanctuary. 

The last service held in the old Church before its de- 
struction was the anniversary of Grace Sunday School. 

This was established in 1840, Mrs. Hassell and Mrs. W. 
L. Johnson, the rector's wife, with her sister. Miss Hattie 
Whitlock, Mrs. William R. Gracie and the Misses Clement, 
assisting as teachers. The school was held in the Church, 
and the library was kept in the vestry room adjoining. 
This room was afterwards enlarged and was used for the 
sessions of the school, which were much affected by the 
death of Mrs. Johnson, in 1848. A few zealous teachers 
and scholars continued the school, under Mr. Jeremiah 



136 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Valentine, who was Superintendent and a Vestryman. 
Miss Anne Van Wyck drilled the scholars in singing, and 
Miss Phebe Hagner in the Catechism and Prayer Book, on 
which she published a book of questions and answers. Mr. 
Valentine invited Mr. Alleman, a teacher in Union Hall 
Seminary, to visit the school, to assist in charge. It so 
increased in numbers that a new building was proposed, 
and erected on Flushing Avenue, well furnished, and 
accommodating 180 scholars and 20 teachers. But Mr. 
Valentine continued to be the faithful and successful su- 
perintendent. Harmony prevailed in the school, which 
the children loved, and maintained with great regularity 
and interest, and especially in their anniversaries and 
picnic excursions displayed their enthusiasm. — (H. Onder- 
donk, Notes.) 

There was a response from Grace Church to the calls 
for aid of the sick, wounded and dying soldiers of the 
Civil War. 

On July 30, 1861, a meeting was held by the ladies of 
Jamaica in the vestry room of Grace Church, to take 
measures to act with the Woman's Central Association of 
Relief for the Army. 

A Soldiers' Aid Society was organized, of which Miss 
Phebe Hagner was Secretary, which held meetings in the 
Sunday School room and did efficient work during the war. 




Ri:\-. William Lultox luii-x.^ox, U. D. 





Rev. Timothy Clowes. 



Rev. Charles Seai'.iun 



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CHAPTER XIV. 

The Rectorship of Doctor Johnson, Continued. 

From the ashes of the old Church rose in eleven months 
a Church edifice worthy of the faith and self-denials, and 
prayers and labors which for more than a hundred and 
fifty years had here maintained the ancient liturgy, the 
principles and the faith and character of the Anglican 
Church. It was left in the hands of the following build- 
ing Committee to secure an architect, and plans for a new 
Church building: Rev. William L. Johnson (rector), John 
A. King, William J. Cogswell, George H. Kissam, John L. 
Denton, Hendrick Brinckerhoff. 

Dudley Field of New York was chosen by them to draw 
the plans and superintend the work. His plans were 
promptly accepted by the Committee. The Church was 
to be built of New Jersey sandstone. Its dimensions were 
to be 44 feet v/ide, by 90 feet long, with tower on one 
corner 128 feet high; from ground to peak 40 feet, and 
side walls about 20 feet high. The plan embraced the 
conveniences and ornaments of modern architecture. 
Anders Petersen was the contractor for the erection of the 
building. 

It was acknowledged by every one to be an ornament 
to the village, and the citizens watched with pride the 
surmounting of the graceful steeple with a stone cross at 
a height of 115 feet. The walls were 52 feet high at the 
apex of the gable, and the side walls 22 feet; the tower 
was 12 feet square, exclusive of the buttresses and front 
porch. 



138 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

The original building was thus described at the time of 
consecration. 'The style of the building is early pointed; 
with the nave divided into five bays by well-developed 
buttresses in two stages, lighted by lancet windows in the 
sides, and by a handsome equilateral window filled with 
geometrical tracery, in the front gable. The trusses of 
the roof are molded and exposed to view, within a small 
distance from the ridge, affording an air space between 
the outer covering and ceiling for equalizing the temper- 
ature of the building. The chancel is lighted by a triplet, 
and divided into sacrarium and choir, with altar, bishop's 
and rector's chairs, and with prayer book and lectern in 
choir, and pulpit in the jamb of chancel archway. The 
organ chamber is connected with nave and chancel by 
large archways with dwarf screens. The exterior is faced 
with Belleville stone, with stone tower and broach spire 
and slated roof." 

This graceful and beautiful church was completed and 
furnished and consecrated within two years after the old 
church was consumed. The corner-stone was laid July 
6, 1861, by Bishop Potter. Among the articles deposited 
in the corner-stone were two plates from decayed coffins, 
one inscribed " Thomas Colgan," and the other " Rev. 
Dr. J. B.," was supposed to be that of Rev. Dr. Joshua 
Bloomer. 

The church was opened September 23, 1862. At the 
first of the two services Rev. Wm. L. Johnson, D. D., 
preached the sermon, closing with appropriate words to 
the congregation, to whom he had ministered for thirty 
years, and to the older portion particularly, who had been 
his friends in trials and afflictions. In the afternoon Rev. 
S. J. Corneille preached from Haggai ii, 9: 'The glory of 
the latter house shall be greater than of the former." 



OF GRACE CHURCH 139 

The application of the prophecy was its fulfillment by 
the erection, under discouraging circumstances, of this 
edifice, which exceeded the glory of the former. Mr. 
Corneille referred to the state of the country in strong 
terms, and to the necessity of sustaining the Government 
in the present crisis; and he reminded his hearers that 
though this Government might fail in its mission, their 
trust must be in that Government whose Constitution is 
perfect and fails not; and then he exhorted them to be more 
punctual in their attendance at Church and more united 
in their bonds of Christian fellowship; then the glory of 
the latter house would indeed be greater than the former. 

This handsome church edifice was erected at a cost of 
$19,000. The masonry work was contracted for by 
Anders Petersen, and the carpenter work by Hendrick 
Brinckerhotf. The last expense was for a bell weighing ^ 
little more than 1200 pounds, cast at Meneely's West Troy 
works. Into this bell is cast a legend, giving the date of 
incorporation of Grace Church, and of the erection of this 
edifice, and the names of the building committee. 

The subscriptions for this building amounted to $4,453. 
Governor John A. King gave $1,000 and also the new 
organ made by Jardine & Co. It contained 14 stops and 
403 pipes, and an independent sub-base. This organ con- 
tinued to be used by Grace Church for forty years. It 
was rich in tone and of high compass. 

When the corner-stone was laid by Rt. Rev. Horatio 
Potter, July 6, 1861, he alluded to the presence of the aged 
former rector, Rev. Dr. Sayres, who making a short but 
affectionate address, gave his blessing to the work. This 
greatly moved the people. 



140 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

At the consecration of Grace Church by Bishop Horatio 
Potter, about twenty clergymen were in the procession, 
which, preceded by Bishop Potter, and the rector, marched 
from the vestry room toward the Church, at the entrance 
of which they v/ere received by the Church Wardens and 
Vestrymen, then moved up the center aisle to the com- 
munion table, chanting the seventy-fourth Psalm. 

The instrument of donation and endowment was pre- 
sented by Hon. John A. King, and read by one of the 
Clergy, while the Bishop was seated. The sentence of 
consecration, also written, was placed in the hands of the 
Rector, and read by him to the congregation: this was 
returned to the hands of the Bishop, who laid it upon the 
communion table, after which the service was continued 
as laid down in the book of Common Prayer. 

Bishop Potter in his sermon praised the congregation, 
''offering such a beautiful, substantial and suitable house 
to the Lord," and also gave a tribute well deserved to the 
rector, ''going in and out before the people for more than 
thirty years, always faithful to his ministerial trust, and 
who now, when he was growing old, receives from the 
worthies of his church tokens of their attachment, respect 
and love." 

The organist of the Dutch Reformed Church, who had 
during the erection of the building, courteously furnished 
their Consistory Room on Union Ave. for the use of the 
worshippers of Grace Church, was invited to preside at 
the new organ, and its sweet and solemn tones, under his 
guidance, deeply impressed the congregation. The same 
courtesy had been extended to the Church by the Presby- 
terians when the former church was laid in ashes, and 
gratefully acknowledged by act of the Vestry. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 141 

The services thus inaugurated and resumed in the new 
church were continued with great interest. The music 
was under the direction of Miss Virginia Johnson, the 
daughter of the rector. The prosperity of the Church 
seemed assured by the increased congregation, and the 
willing hands that now sustained what not only appealed 
to the piety but to the respect of the community for the 
sacrifices made to sustain the worship of God, in this 
beautiful sanctuary. The Sunday School was conducted 
with vigor, prizes were given for attendance, and excel- 
lence in examinations, at the yearly celebrations of the 
school. 

Rev. Dr. Johnson was a Freemason of high degree, and 
for this Fraternity public services on St. John, the Evan- 
gelist's Day, and at other times, were held in Grace 
Church. On Dec. 27, 1864, the Rector preached to the 
Masons, in their commemoration of the day. 

The ill health of the Rector again required his absence 
in foreign travel, in the beginning of the year 1864, but 
he returned after a few months to resume his pastoral 
duties. 

On Dec, 5, 1866, thieves broke into the Church and 
took away carpets which were afterwards found in a barn 
where they had long laid. Later on other burglaries were 
successful, and the Church was protected by a burglar 
alarm. 

The missionary collections were good responses to the 
appeals of the Rev. Dr. Twjng, Secretary of the Com- 
mittee of the Episcopal Board of Domestic Missions. In 
February, 1867, the offering was $126. 

A meeting of the Convocation of Queens and Suffolk 
Counties was held in Grace Church for two days, in the 



142 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

first part of January, 1868, and thereafter Jamaica was 
frequently chosen for the assemblies of churchmen. 

Rev. Mr. Corneille remained as assistant minister to Dr. 
Johnson until May 16, 1863, and no other was called till 
Jan., 1864, when Rev. Augustus W. Cornell was en- 
gaged, at a salary of $600 per year. Having been ad- 
vanced to the priesthood by Bishop Potter April 1, he left 
Jamaica May 1, 1866, and was succeeded by Rev. Thomas 
Cook, May 10, the same year, at a salary of $800. Dr. 
Johnson was now unable to perform many of the duties 
of the rectorship, and for three years his assistant did 
efficient service, largely increasing the congregation by his 
pastoral labors and preaching, from the people of Lutheran 
education, who were rapidly increasing and becoming a 
considerable part of the township and community. 

Mr. Cook was a popular lecturer and Sunday School 
worker, and was able to gather a large number into the 
Sunday School. He undoubtedly became assistant with 
the expectation of succeeding to the rectorship. On July 
25, 1869, Mr. Cook began the mission services in Clar- 
enceville, which resulted in the subsequent organization of 
the Parish of the Church of the Resurrection at Richmond 
Hill in 1874 by Rev. Joshua Kimber, its first rector, anH 
also extended his mission activities to Queens, where he 
laid the foundations of the present St. Joseph's Church. 

The changes in the Vestry each year brought into active 
and influential churchmanship such able men as Judge 
W. J. Cogswell, Alexander Hagner, James J. Brenton, 
and Jeremiah Valentine, who were in succession War- 
dens and Treasurers and the latter Clerk of the Vestry, and 
Theodore J. Cogswell, a very much loved teacher and 
Superintendent of the Sunday School. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 143 

Miss Jenny Aymar was appointed organist in 1865, 
with William Creed as organ assistant. Lewis Buckbee 
was appointed sexton, April 24, 1866, beginning a service 
in that capacity which continued over forty years. 

The next year Mrs. Charles King made a notable gift of 
tablets containing the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and Ten 
Commandments, replacing those which had been destroyed 
with the old church. The Vestry tendered her their 
grateful acknowledgments, and the sincere and heartfelt 
thanks of the congregation, not only for the intrinsic 
worth of the gift, but also, "as a fitting memorial of one 
whose pious and generous deeds have given her honored 
and cherished name a welcome place upon our records," 
It remained till the new sanctuary was built, and was 
afterwards preserved to be erected in the new parish 
house, half a century later. 

Again the Church was burglarized, Sept. 22, 1868, and 
vestments of the clergy and altar, including a handsome 
and costly gold embroidered altar-cloth, were taken. They 
were replaced in part by subsequent gifts by Mrs. J. Ban- 
croft Davis, a member of the King family, who the same 
year presented a beautiful altar-cloth to the Church. 

Death was taking some of the noblest and best of this 
happy parish, at this period of its history. Rev. Dr. 
Sayres passed away, and was buried May, 1867, and on 
July 8, two months after those services, the Hon. John 
Alsop King, ex-Governor of New York died, the chief sup- 
porter of his Rector and Church, as had been his father, 
Hon. Rufus King, at the beginning of the century. 

Governor King was stricken at the celebration of Fourth 
of July by the Young Men's Literary Union. At the close 
he made a short but memorable impromptu address. "M^ 



144 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

young friends," he said, "upon you will devolve the im- 
portant duty of maintaining and strengthening the gov- 
ernment of your country. Those like me have nearly 
finished their work and look to you to carry forward your 
country to the great future that awaits her. Cultivate a 
respect for religion and virtue. No people or country can 
prosper or become great without this. Let your prayers 
be not only that those who hold the positions of power 
may be wise and discreet, but have ambition to labor for 
the honor and glory of the land. Life is all before you, 
but old men like me are passing away." 

Governor King was stricken with paralysis as he uttered 
these words, and faltered in his speech, but was caught in 
the arms of those near him when falling, and carried to 
the back of the stage. Doctors Hendrickson and Barker 
were soon at hand to give such relief as was possible, as 
he remained for a while conscious. He died on the follow- 
ing Sunday afternoon. 

At his death the community was specially and deeply 
moved, and on the day of the funeral, while the bells 
tolled and business in Jamaica ceased its activities, the 
people crowded to take a last look at their distinguished 
friend and fellow citizen. The services were held in 
Grace Church. The plain rosewood coffin with silver 
handles bore a large silver plate suitably inscribed: 

JOHN ALSOP KING 

SON OF RUFUS AND MARY KING 

BORN JANUARY 9, 1788 

DIED JULY 8, 1867 

A mural tablet of Italian marble was erected on the walll 
of Grace Church, bearing an effigy of the deceased, and 



OF GRACE CHURCH 145 

adding- to the name and dates of his birth and death the 
following inscription: 

A MOST BELOVED AND HONORED FATHER 

A WISE AND PURE STATESMAN 

AN EMINENT, USEFUL AND LOYAL CITIZEN 

A ZEALOUS MEMBER AND WARDEN 

OF THIS CHURCH 

A GOOD NEIGHBOR, A TRUE FRIEND 

IN HIS FAMILY AFFECTIONATE 

SYMPATHETIC AND GENEROUS 

IN EVERY TRUST FAITHFUL 

"He did justly, loved mercy. 

And walked humbly with his God." 
"Be thou faithful unto death. 
And I will give thee a crown of life." 

There were more than two thousand persons who took 
a last look at the revered face of this honored friend of 
the poor, counsellor of the citizens, Governor of the State, 
and servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His church, as the 
coffin lay surrounded by floral gifts in the large hall of the 
manor. 

A procession of twelve clergymen of neighboring 
churches and of New York, his three physicians, the Vestry 
of Grace Church, trustees of the village and its institutions 
of education, numbering nearly five hundred people, fol- 
lowed the honorary pall-bearers of military and civic dis- 
tinction and the coffin to the church, for the services, and 
to the graveyard adjoining-, where ex-Governor King was 
laid to rest with his ancestors. 



146 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

The Vestry of Grace Church, in their resolutions, com- 
memorated "the loss of one who was endeared to this 
parish by long association, constant sympathy, and by his 
large benefactions to the church, its charities, and its poor. 
We are indeed bereaved and feel impressed with grief; but 
yet we yield our hearty thanks to Almighty God for the 
example of this Christian gentleman who has departed 
this life in his fear and service." 

The resolutions were offered by Mr. James J. Brenton, 
an influential citizen of Jamaica, for many years, and who 
himself was one of Governor King's ablest and prominent 
associates in the Vestry of Grace Church. 

Governor King left a remarkable family to take up his 
work in the Church and community. His son, afterwards 
Senator John A. King, two daughters. Miss Cornelia King 
and Mrs. Sydam, were conspicuous through the next three 
rectorships, in works of faith, charity and social activities 
in Jamaica. 

One thousand dollars were left in Governor King's will 
to the Church, to keep the burying ground in order, and 
land from his estate was afterwards several times added 
to the churchyard. 

During this and previous years several legacies were 
left for the Sunday School work of Grace Church. Mr. 
John Emmons Napier, who died Oct. 10, 1868, established 
a fund of $500, the interest of which was to be used by 
the rector for the purchase of books for the school. Misses 
Elizabeth Woolley and Sarah Woolley each bequeathed 
to Grace Church $500, and Walter Nichols left $300 for 
the Sunday School. 

Three years after his beloved Warden and helper. Gov- 
ernor King, had been buried with imposing ceremonial, 



OF GRACE CHURCH 147 

Doctor Johnson passed away to his eternal home. He 
died of apoplexy Aug. 4, 1870. He was still holding the 
rectorship, continued for forty years. No less honored 
in his death and burial than his warden was this faithful, 
courteous, beloved and able preacher and devoted minister 
of Jesus Christ. 

On August 8, 1870, Bishop Littlejohn of the Diocese 
of Long Island, and Bishop Potter of New York, with forty 
of the clergy, with the family and a great concourse of 
citizens, moved in solemn procession from the house to 
the church, bearing the remains of the deceased rector. 
After the service, in which a memorial sermon was 
preached by the former assistant. Rev. Mr. Corneille, his 
body was committed to the ground by the two bishops, 
and Bishop Potter gave the solemn benediction to the 
people, who in a great throng nearly filled the churchyard. 

The resolutions of the Vestry speak of the loss of a lov- 
ing friend, a faithful priest and a wise and learned teacher. 
"He merited and won the affections of the young, and the 
confidence and respect of elder Christians. During the 
long period of his service he was a friend and adviser in 
prosperity and a minister of consolation in times of trial 
and sorrow. By his decease, a relation has terminated, 
which established as it was in mutual love and confidence, 
only grew stronger and firmer with the lapse of time." 

A similar expression of their esteem and affection was 
made by the members of Jamaica Masonic Lodge, who 
had added their ritual to the obsequies of the church at 
the burial. 

A fitting memorial was placed in the new sanctuary of 
Grace Church, thirty-two years later, by one of his sons. 
It was a large and beautiful altar of Eschallion marble, 



148 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

near where he had eloquently preached the gospel of love 
and pardon, and also offered the sacrifice of the Holy 
Eucharist. 

Doctor Johnson's parish was undivided, and the people 
well united by social affinities and educational influences 
during his prosperous ministry. His salary, and that of 
his assistant, Mr. Cook, was increased to ^1,200 each in 
the last two years. The Vestry voted to continue Dr. 
Johnson's salary till Jan. 1, 1871, and to pay the expenses 
of his illness and funeral. 

Doctor Johnson left three children, J. G. Johnson of 
New York, Miss Virginia Johnson and Mrs. Shepperson 
of Brooklyn. His wife, who was Miss Mary Elizabeth 
Whitlock, died long before him. May 19, 1848. 

The Vestry did not continue the relation of Rev. Thomas 
Cook, but gave a donation from the Vestry of ^600, for 
his efficient services as assistant minister in charge to Dr. 
Johnson. 

For a year and a half the procuring of officiating minis- 
ters was committed to Warden J. J. Brenton, and $20 a 
Sunday was allowed to the clergymen, and $400 expended 
in the salary of organist and assistant sexton and special 
needs of the Sunday School, until the election of the 
twelfth rector, the Rev. George Williamson Smith. 



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The Modem Period 

CHAPTER XV. 

The Ministry and Life of the Church in the Rectorship of 

Rev. George WilHamson Smith, S. T. D., 

LL. D.— 1872-1881. 

This period of our history includes the rectorships of 
clergymen still living and active, though retired from their 
oflficial positions. Their ministry completed two hundred 
years of the Church's life, and extended ten years into the 
third century. Three of them took charge in Jamaica 
with only a few years' experience of pastoral duty, and 
undertook larger responsibilities after leaving Jamaica. 

The most distinguished of these. Rev. George William- 
son Smith, came to Jamaica early in his career, at a time 
auspicious for his success in establishing the position of 
Grace Church in the new diocese of Long Island. There 
she stood, as first in priority of organization and in the 
ministry of rectors. She was eminent in the reputation 
of her membership, and in the service her ministers and 
communicants had rendered to the Church in America, 
and was well fitted to take an important part in the found- 
ing of charitable institutions and missionary organizations 
for the extension of the diocese. It was an interesting 
field for the exercise of churchmanship such as Bishop 
Littlejohn, who had been elected and consecrated in 1869, 
called upon his presbyters to sustain. There was an en- 
thusiasm needed in forming the relations of the churches, 



150 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

and laying out their work on broad lines for the develop- 
ment of this important diocese, and Rev. Mr. Smith was 
well fitted to be a leader in the administration of its affairs 
under such a bishop, whose high scholarship and fore- 
thought and plans demanded equally able and intelligent 
clergy to assist him in his measures for the prosperity of 
the Episcopal Church in Long Island. 

Mr. Smith had a personality which could attract and 
inspire confidence in his parishioners. He had a com- 
manding stature, a scholarly mind, a strong will and a 
warm heart. He had quick sympathy with suffering, and 
a disposition to personal sacrifice for its relief, which had 
been strengthened in his experiences during the momen- 
tous struggles of the nation in the Civil War. He had 
been patriotic in thought and impulse, in those scenes 
which tried his principles to the utmost. His first services 
after receiving holy orders had been as Chaplain in the 
Navy, and he came out of them sharing that heroic spirit 
which American citizenship possessed through the per- 
sonal sacrifices in that strife for the maintenance of the 
Union, that ennobled the whole nation. 

George Williamson Smith was born at Catskill, N. Y., 
Nov. 21, 1836. He graduated at Hobart College in 1857, 
and received the diploma of Master of Arts in his College 
in i860. He was principal of Bladensburg Academy, 
Maryland, for a year, and there married Miss Susanna 
Duval. For three years he was clerk in the Navy Depart-' 
ment, from 1861 to 1864, and was appointed Chaplain 
of the United States in 1865, acting Professor of Mathe- 
matics at the Naval Academy, Newport, for a year, and 
Chaplain of the Naval Academy at Annapolis for three 
years, and, in 1868, Chaplain of the U. S. S. Franklin, 
where he remained till 1871. i 



OF GRACE CHURCH 151 

His service as Chaplain made a deep impression on his 
character, developing a sturdy patriotism and a sympathy 
with the manly traits of American seamen, and especially 
their courage in the rough experiences of war. 

Mr. Smith was elected rector of Grace Church at a 
salary of $2,000 per annum, and $500 additional per year 
till a rectory should be provided. He accepted the elec- 
tion Feb. 6, 1872. The Vestry that called him to this 
rectorship were Messrs. W. J. Cogswell, J. J. Brenton 
(Wardens), M. G. Johnson, S. S. Aymar, Alexander Hag- 
ner, John B. Napier, William J. Sayres, Nathaniel Vander- 
verg and Jeremiah Valentine. 

The following May the residence of Carlos Butler, at 62 
Clinton Avenue, was purchased for a rectory for $9,000, 
and $700 appropriated for its furnishing. 

Jamaica was still remote from the rapidly developing 
activities of New York City and Brooklyn, to which cities 
it had for many years the slow transportation facilities of 
a horse car, afterwards made into a trolley line. The in- 
land towns of Queens were not yet in railroad connection 
with the Long Island ferry. Yet these gradually improv- 
ing methods of transit were overcome by the energy of 
some of the leading citizens, who did their business and 
followed their professions in New York, and the outlook 
for future prosperity and importance of Jamaica was an 
encouragement to make a strong parish. 

The new rector was fortunate in his helpers. The King 
family were still as prominent and steadfast as ever in the 
affairs of the parish. Mr. John A. King had moved into 
his father's residence, where his mother was still living 
and where Miss Cornelia King, his sister, as strong and 
vigorous and devoted a churchwoman as the diocese pos- 



152 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

sessed, stood ready also to co-operate with him in all mis- 
sionary and charitable labors. The Aymars, Barkers, 
Bessemers, Betts, Brentons, Cogswells, Cranes, Dentons, 
Hagners, Hicks, Gales, Napiers, Sayres and Stocking 
families, men and women, were perhaps the most promi- 
nent, among many others in the parish, to be relied upon 
to take responsible action in maintaining the services and 
finances of the Church, the expanding influence of the 
Sunday School, the zealous efforts to evangelize and ex- 
tend the traditions of the parish whose boundaries (the 
same as the original township of Jamaica) by the provi- 
sions of the Royal Charter were confirmed by the canons 
of the diocese of Long Island. 

A notable death in the second year of this ministry 
began a series of afflictions which came rapidly upon this 
prosperous Church, and saddened the hearts of the rector 
and his coworkers. Mrs. Mary Golden King, the mother 
of the late ex-Governor King, died in August, 1873, loved 
and respected by the people of the Church and by all who 
knew her. Her children endowed a bed in St. John's hos- 
pital in her remembrance to be at the disposition of the 
rector. Church Wardens and Vestry of Grace Church. A 
memorial lectern of carved black oak, in the form of a 
Greek cross, surmounted by an eagle holding the support 
to the Bible, was placed on the steps leading to the choir, 
by Miss Cornelia King, also in loving memory of her 
mother. 

A memorial tablet of brass to Theodore J. Cogswell, for 
his membership and service for twenty-five years as 
scholar, teacher, and Superintendent was placed upon the 
walls of the school-room. Mr. Cogswell was born Jan. 
27, 1843, and died Nov. 22, 1877. He was an earnest 
and active Christian, with traits that endeared him not 



OF GRACE CHURCH 153 

only to his family, but to those for whom in the com- 
munity he was ever ready to sacrifice himself. He was 
especially a friend of the young for whom he untiringly 
labored in the work of the Sunday School. 

On April 9, 1880, the Vestry recorded the death of their 
late associate, Alexander Hagner, who had been for seven- 
teen years a Vestryman, conspicuous in their deliberations, 
"while his strong common sense and sound judgment 
caused his counsel to be of more than ordinary value and 
weight in shaping the legislation pertaining to this parish." 
Mr. Hagner was described in their resolutions as ''one who 
was widely known and highly respected in the community, 
where he filled most acceptably many honored and im- 
portant positions." 

In 1878 there was an expression of the interest and 
loyalty of the congregation to the missions of the Church, 
which was specially honorable to the Rev. William Sea- 
man Sayres, the grandson of their former rector, who had 
accepted an appointment as missionary to China. There 
was presented to him through the Vestry the sum of ^270, 
as an evidence of their ''approbation of the earnestness, 
piety and devotion which characterized the ministry" of 
their young brother. 

The work of the Church Charity Foundation excited 
the special interest of the Jamaica congregation. Mrs. 
Smith, the rector's wife, and Miss Cornelia King were 
associate managers. Miss King later on became the presi- 
dent of the board of managers, which position she held 
for many years. 

The Woman's Missionary Aid, Mrs. G. W. Smith as 
president and Mrs. C. A. Beldin treasurer, Mrs. Gilbert 
Sayres vice-president and Miss Lizzie Sayres secretary. 



154 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

was a steady contributor to the missions supported by 
the women ,and the General Board. 

The mission services, at what is now Richmond Hill, 
were maintained by Mr. Benjamin J. Brenton, and occa- 
sional ministrations by the rector. They increased and 
prospered, and the parish of the Church of the Resurrec- 
tion was set off, and the corner-stone of the Church laid 
Dec. 28, 1877. 

The Charitable Association of Grace Church was organ- 
ized during Mr. Smith's ministry. Its officers were the 
rector, Benjamin J. Brenton (president), Gilbert Sayres 
(secretary), J. Augustus Lodge (treasurer). The monthly 
offering of each member was not to exceed twenty-five 
cents, and it became popular and a vigorous aid to the 
home benefactions, and care of the poor and sick of the 
community. The Woman's Missionary Aid Society re- 
ceived one-fourth of the subscriptions. 

The decrease of income from Grace Parish by pew rents, 
investments and offerings was noticeable in Dr. Smith's 
rectorship. In 1873 it amounted to $11,301.00, in 1875 
to $8,348.52, and subsequent years, till 1880, to an aver- 
age of over $6,500. In 1873 the gifts to missions were 
$1,445.68, in 1880 they were $77S.07, in the intervening 
years they fell to about one-half the latter sum annually. 
Other charities amounted to about $1,500 yearly. There 
was, in 1880, a communicant list of 278, and 521 mem- 
bers of the congregation. The religious education of the 
children of the parish was carefully fostered. The Sunday 
School flourished so much as to require enlargement of 
the Sunday School building. The Sunday School for 
colored people, conducted by Miss Phebe Hagner for many 
years, was under her care and that of Mrs. Bessemer. This 



OF GRACE CHURCH l55 

school was established as early as 1837, as a week-day 
school. Samuel W. Berry was the first teacher; the pupils 
numbered 25 boys and 35 girls. Visitors to this school 
published statements that the colored children of those 
days were not a whit behind white children of the same 
age and reared under like disadvantages. 

Dr. Smith was a pastor whose ministrations to the sick 
were faithful and sympathetic. His work as Chaplain had 
specially fitted him to be a loved helper to the distressed. 
He had there won the commendation of Admiral Rodgers 
of the U. S. S. Franklin, when the smallpox broke out 
among the crew, and sixty of the seamen were prostrated 
by it. A building on shore was obtained for a hospital, 
and the Chaplain left his comfortable quarters to live in a 
pest house, "v/htre he was always found by the side of the 
sick men, praying with them, talking to them, making 
their wills, and in every way striving to minister to their 
comfort." Chaplain Smith succumbed at last to the ex- 
haustion which was caused by the constant work of body 
and mind he had undergone for weeks. He, however, 
escaped the disease against which he had not been guarded 
by vaccination when he undertook this brave work of 
ministering to those sick and dying of this malignant 
disease. 

There were several families of clergymen in the congre- 
gation at this time, who were staunch supporters of the 
rector, and enjoyed his forcible and able preaching and 
fellowship. Of the ministers who were neighbors, and in 
frequent association with him, were especially Rev. W. 
H. Carmichael, a retired clergyman, and Rev. Samuel S. 
Stocking, in charge of the church at Massapequa, and 
conducting in Jamaica a boys' school on Clinton Avenue, 
where the largf and stately house he occupied, with its 



156 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

extensive rose garden filled with choicest plants, is still 
occupied by his aged widow. The third clergyman was 
Rev. Beverly R. Betts, librarian of Columbia College. 

In 1880, Mr. Smith received the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Sacred Theology (S. T. D.) from Hobart Col- 
lege. He was now in the prime of his powers, and desired 
a field more suited to his aggressive mind, for Jamaica was 
at a standstill, and still much affected by its traditions of 
nearly two centuries. He received an election from the 
Church of the Redeemer in Brooklyn, and accepted this 
call to what he hoped might be or lead to a larger work 
for him. 

While there, he was elected President of Trinity College, 
where he had a distinguished career of twenty years, in 
which that college made great progress in every way, and 
enlarged its finances, buildings and the number of its stu- 
dents. Dr. Smith, as President of this church institution, 
received numerous honors. 

The degree of S. T. D. was conferred upon him by Co- 
lumbia University in 1887. He was made Doctor of Laws 
by Trinity the same year, Doctor of Divinity by Williams 
College in 1889, and by Yale in 1901, and having been 
retired as Professor Emeritus in 1904, he went abroad. 

What Dr. Smith thought of his people and church in 
Jamaica was acknowledged in his eloquent sermon at the 
consecration of the Church after the erection of the new 
sanctuary in 1902. 

One of the most important works for Grace Church at 
the close of Dr. Smith's administration was the publica- 
tion by Mr. Henry Onderdonk, Jr., of the "Antiquities of 
the Parish Church, Jamaica, with a Continuation of the 




Re\'. Georc.e Williamson Smith. D. D., LL. D. 
(Photograph Taken in iSi-^4. ) 





Rev. William M. Bottom e. 



Rev. Edwin B. Rice. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 157 

History of Grace Church." This was published at Jamaica, 
N. Y., by Charles Welling, 1880. 

It was the diligence of many years which accomplished 
this collection of facts and documents and current items 
that make up the substance of this valuable book. It is 
rather a compendium of history than a condensed and 
lively narrative, but it was the fruit of much research and 
reading and accurate transcription of material from many 
sources. It made faithful use of the records of the Vestry, 
and registers of the rectors and ministers, through 150 
years, and an invaluable service was rendered by this 
gentleman and scholar, who gave a labor of love for the 
church and community where so many of his years were 
spent in educating the sons and daughters of Long Island 
families. 

This memorial has acknowledged already the author's 
indebtedness to Mr. Onderdonk. 



158 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



CHAPTER XVI. 

The Rectorship of Rev. Edwin B. Rice — 1882-1892. 

Rev. Edwin B. Rice was assistant minister of Holy 
Trinity Church, 42d street, in New York, when he was 
elected by the Vestry as successor to Dr. Smith in May, 
1882. He was a graduate of the University of the City of 
New York in 1876, and of the Theological Seminary at 
Alexandria, Virginia. He began his ministry June 18, 1882. 

Mr. Rice received his ordination as priest from Rt. Rev. 
Horatio Potter, D. D., Dec. 19, 1879, and immediately 
entered upon his duties as an assistant minister at'Holy 
Trinity. He was thirty years old, and unmarried, when 
he came to Jamaica. 

At this time the walls of the church had been tinted, and 
other improvements in the furnishings made, and the Sun- 
day School had been presented with an Estey chapel organ 
of good tone. 

Mr. Rice made a good impression with his first sermon, 
and justified the expectations of the people that they were 
to have an able and attractive preacher, a consecrated 
rector and a devout ministrant at tHe altar. 

He had a pleasing personality, and the young people and 
children of the congregation and Sunday School rallied 
with enthusiasm at the sessions of the Sunday School, and 
the numerous entertainments of a religious character, and 
annual excursions, which were made for them. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 159 

The classes preparing for confirmation were also con- 
siderably increased. The congregations were revived in 
numbers and spirit, and their total offerings the first year 
of this rectorship, other than pew rents, were $2,913.98, 
the pew rents $1,9 15.12, and the revenue from the prop- 
erty and investments of the church $1,580. Bishop 
Littlejohn confirmed on Ascension Day twenty-one, who 
were presented by the rector as his first class. A new 
choir-master, Mr. Rand, took charge of the music, and the 
services on Christmas and Easter, and other anniversaries 
of the Church and Sunday School, were greatly improved. 

In entering upon his duties Mr. Rice had won the good 
will of his people, who carried on the usual activities of 
the church and parish. No change was attempted, during 
Mr. Rice's rectorship, for the enlargement of buildings, or 
in the ritual of the services. The rector's special effort 
to institute the early celebration of Holy Communion was 
a lasting benefit to the worshippers. It has continued to 
the present time, and ever will be associated with Mr. 
Rice's direction of the ordinances of the Church. 

An event of rare occurrence in Grace Church took place 
in the second year of Mr. Rice's ministry. This was the 
marriage of the rector himself. His bride was Miss Zelia 
C. Hicks, eldest daughter of Major George A. Hicks, a 
well known citizen of Jamaica. The ceremony was per- 
formed in the church, on Jan. 3rd, 1884, at half past two 
in the afternoon. The day was cold and clear, and the 
Christmas decorations harmonized with those specially 
appropriate for the occasion. The marriage was per- 
formed by the Bishop of Long Island, with whom there 
were six clergymen in the chancel, friends of the bride- 
groom. They were Rev. W. H. Moore of Hempstead; Dr. 
W. F. Watkins of the church of the Holy Trinity, New 



160 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

York; Rev. S. S. Stocking of Jamaica; Rev. Melville Boyd, 
Rector of All Saints, Brooklyn; and Rev. W. P. Brush of 
Brooklyn. The ushers were Messrs. G. B. Sayres, George 
K. Meynen and A. Henderson of Jamaica, and Arthur W. 
Rice of New York. After the ceremony a large reception 
was given at the residence of the bride's parents, on Clin- 
ton Avenue. The congregation of Grace Church pre- 
sented the rector with a handsome wedding gift, which 
was placed among many others given to the bride. 

One of the efforts for the children of the congregation in 
the previous rectorship was a sewing school, with some 
other industrial education of a practical kind. This school 
was continued, and was conducted by some of the most 
active women of the church. Miss Wooley, Miss Mary 
Rhinelander King and others took great interest in guiding 
the young people through their own efforts to active sup- 
port of missions for the needy and untaught peoples of 
the home field. 

There could be no more zealous workers in the Sunday 
School and missionary Society than those with whom the 
rector took counsel, and through whom he accomplished 
much: Mrs. Belden, Mrs. Cogswell, Mrs. Stocking, Mrs. 
Lamphear, Miss Hagner, Miss M. R. King, Mrs. Denton, 
Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Starr Edwards, Mrs. C. 
Edwards, and Miss Amberman were some of the workers 
in the missionary organization. 

No one would fail to recognize the moving spirit of all 
Christian effort. Miss Cornelia King, who was now, in 
the last few years of her useful life, upholding the rector 
and the Church, and blessing the community by her 
Christian example and beneficence. Bishop Littlejohn 
said of her in a Diocesan Convention address after her 



OF GRACE CHURCH l6l 

death, "Miss Cornelia King's culture, devotion and earnest- 
ness put her well in the front rank of the churchmen of 
Long Island. Out of an old and distinguished Church 
family she did much to enrich a record already conspicu- 
ous for good deeds and pure lives. As president of the 
Board of Associates of the Church Charity Foundation, 
and president of the Board of Managers of St. Phebe's 
Mission House, she labored incessantly to increase the 
support and to extend the usefulness of both. There was 
no charity or mission in the diocese that did not command 
her sympathy, and, when needed, her active help. There 
was much in her work, her life, and her character that 
recalled many of the godly women who figure in the Gos- 
pel narratives and in the epistle of St. Paul." 

The death of Mr. James Eldred Brenton, a member of 
the Vestry for many years, a venerated Warden, and for 
forty years a parishioner of Grace Church, made a break 
in the happy current of Church life, and which was fol- 
lowed by others that, like the recurrence of affliction in 
Mr. Benjamin Brenton's family, could but deepen their 
sorrow. Miss Theodora Brenton, wife of Mr. Clement E. 
Gardiner, died September 17, 1883. A memorial window 
of the best English manufacture, having for its central 
subject St. Cecilia, was placed opposite Mr. Brenton's 
pew. She died at the age of twenty years, having rare 
accomplishments. 

The inscription below states, in pathetic memory of her 
departure, 

''AND SHE PASSED AWAY TO JESUS 
WITH THE SINGING OF THE HYMN." 

This was the first of the stained glass windows which now 
adorn the Church. 



162 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

A rich and costly alms basin was given in the first year 
of Mr. Rice's ministry to Grace Church by the Rev. Dr. 
Eigenbrodt and his sister, as a memorial of their deceased 
sister, Mrs. Vandervoort. It was used on the first Sunday 
in February, 1882. It has the inscription on the face, 
'The Lord remembers thine offerings," and on the reverse, 
the initials of the donors and date of the gift, with the 
memorial. The basin is of great beauty and a massive 
silver piece of artistic design. 

The later years of this pastorate were affected by Mr. 
Rice's impaired health. An affection of the throat became 
a serious hindrance to his preaching, and to all the public 
relations of a pastor. After contending with this trouble 
for two years Mr. Rice determined to relinquish his charge. 
His resignation took effect in 1892. 

Mr. and Mrs. Rice made their home in Mount Vernon, 
New York, where with their children born in Jamaica, 
Zelia Stanton, and Bessie Sheridan Rice, they still have 
their residence. Mr. Rice left a record of 159 baptisms, 
1 1 1 confirmations, 50 marriages and 226 burials. 

He was obliged to relinquish active work in the minis- 
try, but was entered upon the staff at the Church Mission 
House in New York, where his rhetorical and literary 
talents are employed in an editorial capacity, preparing 
the publications of the Board of Protestant Episcopal 
Missions. 

The Vestry received through the rector a request from 
the people of Hollis for the privileges of the Church to be 
given to them. This part of Jamaica was two miles from 
Grace Church. The mission was conducted by the rector, 
assisted by some faithful workers, and so the foundations 
were laid for the Church of St. Gabriel in the Sunday 



OF GRACE CHURCH 163 

School which was begun together with the less frequent 
services of the Church. Within three years the present 
church building was completed by the aid of the Cathedral 
authorities, who also furnished the stipend of the mission- 
ary in charge. It was dedicated in the autumn of 1896, 
and the next year a rectory was built. It has been ever 
since a prosperous mission, in charge of several successive 
ministers and under the direction of the Dean of the 
Cathedral. 

The death of Hon. William J. Cogswell during Mr. 
Rice's ministry, in March, 1885, at the age of eighty-five 
years, brought from the Vestry a statement of the long and 
valuable services he had rendered to the Church and 
community. 

Mr. Cogswell came to Jamaica from Connecticut in 
1834, and as a lawyer and churchman soon became hon- 
ored, respected and loved by his fellow citizens. He was 
made a Vestryman in 1842, and a Warden in 1862. He 
was appointed Judge and Surrogate of Queens County in 
1849, in place of Henry I. Hagner, deceased. 

Judge Cogswell was ''learned and upright as a Judge, 
eminent and able as a lawyer, and distinguished as a citi- 
zen by a singular and inflexible integrity of thought and 
purpose. For thirty-four years, as Vestryman and Warden 
of this Church, he exemplified in his life its holy doctrines 
and divine precepts." 

"Judge Cogswell's benefactions to the Church, which 
were frequent and generous, are borne in grateful remem- 
brance; his interest in and devotion to this parish form a 
part of its history, and combined with his sound judgment, 
strong character and kindliness of disposition, rendered 
him capable of great usefulness as an administrator, and 



164 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

endeared him to his brethren of the Vestry. Nor were his 
activities and zeal confined to the limits of his own parish; 
he was deeply interested in the organization of this diocese 
— of which he was for several years a member of its stand- 
ing committee — and to few more than himself is its success 
to be attributed." 

Judge Cogswell removed from the parish in 1876, when 
his official connection with it ceased. Of his three sons, 
William S., Theodore J. and George, two became lawyers, 
and George died a soldier in the Civil War. William S. 
enlisted in a Connecticut regiment, and after an active 
service through the war, retired with the rank of brevet- 
Colonel. 

Col. Cogswell was elected Vestryman in 1874, and like 
his father has rendered invaluable services to the Church 
ever since as Vestryman and Warden for forty years. 

Theodore was a lay reader and Superintendent of the 
Sunday School of Grace Church, and at the Clarenceville 
(Richmond Hill) Missions, and died at an early age in 
1878, possessing the efficient qualities of his father, and 
greatly lamented in the community. 

Among the gifts of Judge W. J. Cogswell to the parish 
was the addition to the rectory on Clinton Avenue for the 
rector's study. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 165 



CHAPTER XVII. 

The Ministry of Rev. William M. Bottome— 1893-1896. 

This was comparatively a short period in which to add to 
the growth or make important changes in a Church; yet 
no one who served Grace Church had warmer friends 
than Mr. Bottome, and his memory is associated with no 
painful discords in the congregation. He brought into the 
life of the Church kindlier feelings and ennobling motives, 
in the individual relationships of the communicants. He 
was the son of an English clergyman of the Wesleyan 
Methodist Church; Mrs. Margaret Bottome, his mother, 
was a woman of beautiful character and piety, which was 
impressed on unnumbered lives by her founding of the 
order of Kings Daughters in evangelical churches in 
America and Great Britain, and her devotional writings. 

Rev. William McDonald Bottome was born in Meriden, 
Connecticut. His father. Rev. Francis Bottome, D. D., 
was an Englishman by birth, who entered the Wesleyan 
Methodist ministry as a missionary in Canada and re- 
moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was received into the 
N. Y. East Conference. He met and married in Brooklyn 
Miss Margaret McDonald, who founded the King's Daugh- 
ters in New York. This is an interdenominational order 
not restricted as to membership to any church. 

William McDonald Bottome was educated at Wilbraham 
Academy, and a graduate of Dickinson College, and Union 
Theological Seminary. After completing his studies he 
met Miss Margaret Latham of England. He went to Eng- 



166 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

land, where they were married, and after a year of study 
Mr. Bottome was ordained deacon and priest in the Church 
of England. He began his ministry, in Massingham, Eng- 
land, and coming to the United States, associated v/ith 
Rev. Henry W. Satterlee, D. D., of Wappingers Falls, 
New York. 

Mr. Bottome was elected by the Vestry of Grace Church 
as rector and took charge in Jamaica April 1, 1893. His 
ingenuous mind and character, and attractive social quali- 
ties, made him welcome to the hearts and homes of his 
people. He made friends quickly, by his cheerful spirit. 
Though born in the United States, he had acquired traits 
of culture, manner and speech which bespeak the English 
gentleman. These could not excite any considerable 
prejudice against him in Grace Church, and if they had 
done so, his generous nature would have disarmed it. Mrs. 
Bottome, his wife, was a lady of English birth and train- 
ing, the niece of Hon. John Bright, the foremost champion 
in his day of the rights of the people, and at one time 
leader of the Liberal party in England. Her health was 
frail, and therefore she was not so well known by the 
people as a rector's wife is supposed to become by virtue 
of her husband's position. They had a young family of 
four children, three daughters and a son, who could attract 
companions in the homes around them. 

Grace Church was not in a flourishing condition when 
Mr. Bottome came to the rectorship. The congregation 
had been greatly depleted by death during the two previous 
rectorships. 

Under the incidental supplies of clergymen, the services 
were of a plain and uninspiring sort, the musical part in- 
different and dull, and Mr. Bottome undertook to revive 



OF GRACE CHURCH 167 

their spirit and change their musical character. He pro- 
posed and carried through the inauguration of a choir of 
men and boys. This was indeed an innovation that would 
excite discussion and dissent. It conflicted with century 
honored traditions in Jamaica, and it required both con- 
fidence and persuasiveness in the rector to make it success- 
ful. But Mr. Bottome was loyally sustained by the 
Vestrymen and many others in the congregation. He had 
chosen a choir leader and organist in Mr. Frank E. Hop- 
kins, who could bring a fine musical taste and good ability 
as an organist to the endeavor. 

After several months Mr. Hopkins had trained a number 
of boys so well as to present them to the service of the 
Church. The choir was fairly installed, the people pleased 
with the idea and with the music, which seemed to trans- 
form the service into an effective motive and help to 
worship. The history of the choir from that time has 
varied somewhat in effectiveness, but twice, in terms of 
six or eight years, Mr. Hopkins has had charge of it, and 
improved it, and produced the regular and special services 
in a churchly way, and special rehearsals of the composi- 
tions of great masters which have filled the Church. An- 
other effect has been, indirectly, to lead to a great improve- 
ment in the choirs and the character of the music in other 
congregations in Jamaica. 

There was another institution of Christian charity which 
the whole township of Jamaica had greatly needed, a well 
regulated hospital. With the familiarity which years had 
given to Mr. Bottome in England, with this way of show- 
ing mercy and helpfulness to our fellow man, Mr. Bottome 
co-operated earnestly with the efforts made by some of his 
congregation, especially Miss Mary R. Gale, and other 
women of Jamaica, to establish in its humble beginnings, 



168 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

in a small house on Fulton Street near Grand Street, the 
now well known Jamaica Hospital. This came, soon after 
his departure, to possess buildings upon which rest no 
debts, and now has a large staff of physicians and nurses, 
and equipments, on New York Avenue. It can accommo- 
date numerous patients, and is almost always full, drawing 
them from the largely increased population of the villages 
of the whole township and the wards of Queensborough 
in the City of New York. 

Mr. Bottome enlisted the sympathy and contributions of 
his parish in this great and beneficent enterprise, and was 
always a welcome visitor at the bedside of the sick. 

The minutes of the Vestry record the death of Mr. 
Richard King on March 21st, 1892, for twenty years a 
member of the Vestry of Grace Church. The resolutions 
passed on March 28 express profound sorrow and sym- 
pathy with his son and other relatives. They signify their 
sense ''of personal and official loss in the death of him 
whose genial companionship made his presence ever wel- 
come, and whose interest in this parish, manifested in 
various ways to the end of his life, commanded their 
respect and was worthy of their emulation." 

Mr. King was the son of John Alsop King, and had been, 
like his ancestors, a generous contributor to the Church, 
and in many ways promoted its work and influence at 
home and in the diocese. 

The revival of the musical spirit of the services was but 
the beginning of other great changes proposed by the new 
rector to the Vestry. He saw that there must be a new 
organ, and urged this upon their attention. The symbolic 
aids to the ritual of Holy Communion were almost wholly 
wanting in this distinctive part of the Church Liturgy. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 169 

However the plainness of forms and appointments might 
satisfy the older communicants, it was quite out of keep- 
ing with worship that prevailed in the Churches in this and 
neighboring dioceses. It was desired that the communion 
table should have more of the symbolic character of an 
altar of the Church's faith. 

An altar guild was needed, and a few of those in sym- 
pathy with such work were enlisted to make new vest- 
ments and attend to the preparations of the sanctuary for 
the services. A super-altar was desired, and the introduc- 
tion of Church ornaments proposed. The former was 
given by the Grace Circle of the Kings Daughters, and a 
solid brass cross put upon it, the gift of Mr. John M. Crane. 
Two brass vases were also given by Grace Circle of the 
Kings Daughters, silk veils and purses and a set of altar 
linen, with a fair linen cloth, were presented, the work of 
Miss Virginia Cogswell and Mrs. John S. Denton. 

The vestments for the Church seasons were also in- 
creased, to take the place of the prevailing red cloth which 
covered the altar. This was done by several women of the 
parish. The organ chamber was extended, and repairs put 
upon the organ, and the purchase of a new one deferred. 
The salary of the organist was raised from $400 to $600, 
and that of the Sexton to $300. 

The movement in the diocese to increase the Episcopal 
fund was aided by Grace Church. The sum of $500 was 
voted by the Vestry and raised by subscription for this 
purpose. 

A large piano was bought of Mr. Hopkins for the use of 
the choir and Sunday School, at $225. 

The death of Mr. Francis Lott, March 6, 1896, a member 
of the Vestry, for ten years, brought to their remembrance 



170 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

and emulation his love and loyalty to the Church. Charles 
C. Napier was at the next election chosen to fill his place 
in the Vestry, 

The resolutions of the Vestry in accepting Mr. Bottome's 
resignation expressed unfeigned sorrow. 

"By his kindly ministrations he has won our hearts; by 
his faithful service as a preacher of the Word and as Shep- 
herd of the Sheep committed to his care, he has gathered 
into the fold many souls who shall be as seals to his minis- 
try and stars in the crown of his rejoicing, and has laid 
broad and deep foundations for the future upbuilding and 
development of Christ's Kingdom among us." 

The pastoral relations formed in these three years are 
still cherished remembrances to the older families of the 
congregation. He was equally acceptable to the fellow- 
ship of clerical brethren, and the companionship of the 
Men's Club of Jamaica, where he was frequently found. 
His fondness for athletic exercise was a bond of comrade- 
ship to others, and it seemed to have been a happy conjunc- 
tion of pastor and people when he came to reside in this 
community. 

There were, however, no considerable developments of 
parochial strength or increase of numbers, partly for the 
reason that the mortality among the families of the congre- 
gation was greater than the accession of new families in 
Jamaica, and the apathy of business and social life con- 
tinued. The question of health for some members of the 
rector's family led to a serious consideration of whether to 
maintain the relation of rector and people. The decision 
was made to take his family back to England, and many 
regrets for personal loss in their departure followed them 
to the home land. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 171 

The names of their children were Wilmot, Mary, Phyllis, 
and George. 

During Mr. Bottome's ministry at Grace Church there 
were 62 baptisms and 47 presented for confirmation, and 
fifteen marriages. 

The record of deaths and burials is not exclusively that 
of members of the parish, but was comparatively a long 
and saddening one to the rector. 

Mr. Bottome continued his ministry incidentally in 
several churches in England until he settled in the vicarage 
of All Saints Church, Sv/anscombe, England, where a long 
and successful pastorate was ended at Easter, 1913. 

At the close of his ministry in Swanscombe, Mr. Bottome 
established a home for his family at Bromley, Kent, Eng- 
land. In the last days of this removal he was seized with 
bronchial pneumonia which in less than a week's illness 
ended his service on earth, in May, 1913, that he might 
"enter into the joy of his Lord." 

''Lord, vouchsafe him light and rest, peace and refresh- 
ment, joy and consolation in Paradise, in the companion- 
ship of Saints, in the presence of Christ, in the ample folds 
of Thy great love!" 



172 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 




CHAPTER XIX. 



Grace Churchyard. 

There is a light of hope and a blessing of peace which 
hovers over a churchyard, where for hundreds of years 
those who have died in the Lord have been gathered to the 
silence of bodies turned to dust and ashes, that await the 
resurrection of the dead. If there is one spot sacred to the 
memory of past years it is the churchyard where genera- 
tions have been laid to rest. 

It may not be encouragement so much as resignation 
that is fostered in the hearts of worshippers by tombstones 



OF GRACE CHURCH 173 

that mark the graves of departed relatives. The Christian 
religion calls for all the energies that can be used in this 
life for its betterment in ourselves and others. So fre- 
quent association with those scenes where are buried our 
brightest hopes and heart's best love, may paralyze the 
active powers, and rob us of the good that this world has 
still for us to reap and enjoy. 

But there is a worthy and fondly cherished sentiment 
that associates so intimately our religious activities with 
the reminders of those "who rest from their labors." The 
churchyard becomes a dear and treasured spot even if we 
but glance toward it, as we enter the house of worship or 
kneel at the altar of our faith. 

Grace Church was founded so early in the life of Jamaica 
that the faithful ones buried beneath the shadow of its 
walls and steeple now have their graves in the midst of the 
busy life of the city that has grown up around it. 

The extent of this churchyard was at first only half an 
acre. It has been enlarged at diflferent times by gifts of 
the members of the King family, and by purchases by the 
Vestry of lots on Grove street on the north and on John 
street on the west. It now forms a quadrilateral enclosing 
a large city block, from Grove to Fulton streets, except on 
the southeast corner occupied by the property of Doctor 
Hull. The graveyard encircles the Church and the new 
Parish Memorial House occupies one-half of the north side 
on Grove street, a permanent safeguard from the intrusion 
of houses or stores into its hallowed precincts. The 
churchyard was originally given by the widow of Colonel 
Heathcote, the receiver-general of New York. This was 
thirty-five years after the organization of the Church; dur- 
ing this period a village graveyard, on what is now Pros- 



174 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

pect street, had been used by the inhabitants of Jamaica, 
in which even now some Church families have their burial. 

Most of the elegies that have been written on church- 
yards can well describe the characters and conditions and 
resting places of those who lie so peacefully around Grace 
Church. Some graves have been hidden under the church 
itself. The sanctuary built in 1902 covered others, to 
which an iron gateway leads, and nothing can disturb 
them, while they are still accessible. Others lie in tombs 
that are now sealed up and covered with green sod. 

At the front entrance one sees the brownstones of the 
earliest graves. Some have lost their inscriptions through 
the years, and some have disappeared altogether. On the 
right, near the east corner of the church, is the humble 
sandstone relic of Richard Betts, Jr., who died in 1749, 
and of Mary his wife in 1759. Near it the large brown 
slab, to the memory of Captain William Dickson, a native 
of Glasgow and commander of four companies of volun- 
teers of New York. English soldiers erected this tribute 
to their captain, who died in 1781. Near this lies the 
memorial of Paulus Moulin Clijtendaele, Baron of Brelton, 
who died March 27, 1796. There are numerous graves of 
officers and privates of the colonial army. One can trace 
six generations of the Betts family, before and through 
the period of the Revolution and down to the present time. 

On the left are many graves of the King family, begin- 
ning with Rufus King, the most noted of them all, and 
followed by Governor John A. King, and his wife, and 
descendants. The group of graves of General Van Rens- 
selaer and his family, the Van Cortlands, and Duers, bring 
back remembrances of early New York, and prominent 
actors in its history. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 175 

This part of the churchyard contains pathetic inscrip- 
tions on its stones, such as are found elsewhere in old 
graveyards, but all are dignified in their expressions of 
sorrow. 

One reads under the name of a wife who departed this 
life *'ye 13 January, 1767, aged 26 years": 

O, Cruel Death, why wast thou so severe 
To rob me of a tender Wife so dear? 

Another who had been ''the wife of one husband 5o 1/2 
years" received this epitaph: 

At length ye Christian's race is run : 
A glorius prize she now has won : 
With ye angelic host she's fixed, 
In joys Celestial and unmixed. 

An appreciative visitor to another early grave in his 
account of Grace Church published in the Brooklyn Eagle 
April 18, 1908, says of it: 

"The eternal struggle during the ages to substitute the 
sense of grief at the loss of one dear, by the gladness of 
the thought of the life of bliss enjoyed by the free spirit, 
is voiced in this bit of poetry on the monument of John 
Rowland: 

Dear as thou wast, and still is dear. 

We will not weep for thee. 
One thought shall check the starting tear, 

It is that thou art free. 
And then shall this consoling power 

The tears of love restrain. 
Oh, who that saw thy parting hour 

Could wish thee here again. 

At the east side of the church are plots of families of the 
second one hundred years of the life of Grace Church. 
Among these is the marble monument to the Rev. William 



176 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Lupton Johnson, D. D., and his wife and children, whose 
graves extended to the fence, and marble slabs to Rev. 
George H. Sayres, D. D., with several children. These 
are the only two rectors of Grace Church buried in this 
churchyard. But a number of clergymen have here made 
their last resting places. Among these are Rev. Sabura i 
S. Stocking, D. D., whose stately monument, a high i 
granite cross, with its elaborate Latin inscription, stands ; 
near the north boundary; Rev. Beverley R. Belts, under 
massive granite stone, formed and polished like a sar- 
cophagus; Rev. Lewis E. A. Eigenbrodt, L. L. D., and his 
son. Rev. William Ernest Eigenbrodt, D. D., each with the ; 
same distinguished memorials. Of later interments are 
the stone crosses over the remains of Rev. Canon James 
A. Smith, John M. Crane and Harriet Seabury Crane. 

The later monuments have far excelled in graceful formi 
or costly material the earlier ones. The stones over the 
graves of the King family of several generations are plain 
white marble slabs; so are those of the Cogswells, Dentons, 
Duers and Wellings, Oldfields, Betts and Ogdens. 

There are other well-known names, borne by Wardensi! 
or Vestrymen of the Church or prominent citizens of 
Jamaica and Long Island — Van Brunt, Skidmore, Van 
Nostrand, Higbie, Thatford, Napier, Seabury, Carpenter, 
Kissam, Grossman, Damon, Pettit, Stoothotf, Robinson, 
Meynen, Remsen, Canfield, Jackson, Seabury, Brenton/ 
Clowes, Snediker, Hunter, Brooks, Butler, Hoyt, Ander- 
son, Ichenbrock, Carpenter, Clark, Sayre, Simonson and 
Troup. 

Some of these have splendid monuments. The whok| 
aspect of the churchyard is that of the living of departecj 
ones in the memories of those who survive them. 



Two A'lEWS OF THE SANCTUARY 

AND Church YARD of 
Grace Church, Jamaica. 




(Photograph by Dexter Walker.) 



I 



OF GRACE CHURCH 177 

There was no more beautiful gift ever bestowed upon 
Grace Church than that which is recorded in the parch- 
ment deed of Martha Heathecote, for this " God's acre." 
Here lie the patriots of three wars, who died for their 
nation's defence and perpetuation. Here rest the valiant 
soldiers of the Church. Here every human relationship 
has been hallowed by loving gifts upon graves covered by 
flowers, wet with tears, gilded with the rays of the sun of 
righteousness, and lightened by the hope of life eternal. 

The frosts of Christmas blight the fresh garlands spread 
upon these mounds, the warm airs of Easter morn are 
fragrant with the multitude of flowers spread over them 
in the early twilight. The flags of our Union wave over 
the graves of soldiers in the hot rays of July suns, the 
ivies creep all the year over mouldering forms below, the 
roses shed their petals all through the summer days upon 
the grass. 

And yet, beyond the tall iron fence which encloses this 
sacred spot, the streams of human activities are flowing 
swiftly by, reminding us that the solemn words of the 
burial service which is always said in this churchyard, are 
too sadly true : 

"In the midst of life we are in death. 

Of whom may we seek for succor, but of thee, 

O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased?" 



178 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



CHAPTER XX. 

Early Gifts to the Church of England in Jamaica — Later i 

Gifts to Grace Church — Donations to Grace 

Church Funds. 

On the 17th of April, 1704, representations made to thei 
Society as to the needs of their missions led to a resolution! 
that a sum not exceeding £15 be allowed the Church ini 
Jamaica for vestments and for vessels for the communioni 
table. As the Lord Bishop of London reported, in 1706,) 
that Queen Anne had given a large Bible, Common Prayer 
Books, and Book of Homilies, cloths for pulpit and com-i 
munion table, silver chalices and patens, for the churches 
in Hempstead and Jamaica, the source of the donation 
made by the Society in 1704 is thus, according to tradition, 
from the royal bounty. 

The chalice and paten that Grace Church still treasures' 
and has in use are among the oldest relics of ecclesiastica- 
use in America. Around the chalice is a Latin inscriptior 
''Ex dono Societatis promovendo Evangelis in partiii 
transmarinis 1704 A. D." 

It is 10 1/2 inches high, 5 1/2 inches in diameter at tho 
brim, and holds three pints. It bears the mark of sterling 
silver, and is the oldest sacramental cup in Long Island 
This chalice was once broken by the fall of a stovepipe 
upon it during service, which of necessity was discon 
tinued. The break was so neatly mended by a silversmitl 
that it cannot now be discovered. It was used in the coo 
secration of the Cathedral at Garden City, with the silvec 



OF GRACE CHURCH 179 

communion vessels of St. George's, Hempstead, which 
were of later make. 

The title page of the Prayer Book presented by Lord 
Cornbury in 1703 for the reading desk, reads thus: 

"The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the 
Sacraments" &c. 

with the inscription written in spaces on each side of the 
printed words: 

"Given to the Church of Jamaica by his Excellencie 
Ed "^'^ Viscount Cornbury Oct 1703." 

This prayer book is in the possession of Mr. William 
Perry, of Newtown, L. I. 

The Royal Arms, which were first set up in the churches 
of England by order of Queen Elizabeth in 1550, was also 
given to Grace Church by Queen Anne, with an altar of 
oak. The Royal Arms is still a well preserved painting, 
inclosed in a black frame, but the altar was destroyed in 
the burning of Grace Church in i860. No description of 
this altar can be found, except that it was marked with a 
plate indicating its gift by the Society and was of graceful 
pattern. The Ten Commandments first ordered to be 
placed in the churches by Queen Elizabeth, in 1564, were 
probably not part of the chancel appointments of Grace 
Church till the new church was erected, 1822, during the 
rectorship of Rev. Gilbert Sayres. There was also in con- 
nection with the Decalogue tablets one containing the 
Creed and the Lord's Prayer, in this and the following 
church building erected in 1861. 

In 1761 a handsome silver collection plate was given by 
Mr. John Troup, to which all other collection plates given 
in later years conformed in pattern and value. 



180 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

There is no list of subscriptions for building the first 
Episcopal church in Jamaica in 1734. 

There was a sale of pews and lots on Feb. 23, 1737, 
with the following conditions: 

I. Each pew lot to be struck oflf to the highest bidder. 

II. Every purchaser to build (his pew) in such season 
that the work be not hindered. 

III. Every purchaser to make use of his pew, or the 
Church shall let it out to another. 

IV. On the purchaser leaving the parish the pew or lot 
is to revert to the Church. 

Purchasers' Names. 

No. s. d. No. s. d. 

1. Daniel Whitehead ...20. 17. Edw. Willett to Samuel 

2. Robert Howell 16. Smelt 10. 

3. George Reynolds ....12. 18. Benjamin Taylor .... 9. 

4. William steed 12. 19. Sarah Payer, gratis. 

5 Rector for time being. 20. Benjamin Thorne ....14. 

6. Anthony Waters 12. 21. Samuel Clowes 14. 6 

7. Richard Betts Jr 11. 6 22. Thomas Coigan 21. 6 

8. Richard Betts 16. 10 23. William Welling . 18. 

9. Samuel Clowes 16. 10 24. Timothy Bridges ....15. 

10. Samuel Clowes Jr. ... 11. 6 Guy Young 14. 

11. Gabriel Luff 12. 26. Isaac Van Hook 11. 

12. John Willett 12. 27. William Wiggins ....12. 6 

13. A4idrew Clarke 12. 28. Daniel Sawyer 14. 6 

14. Robert Freeman 29. Sias Wiggins IS. 

15. Commofl Pew 30. Benjamin Whitehead ..20. 

16. Henry Wright 10. 

Six persons in above list defaulted payment. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



181 



The Subscriptions towards the Rebuilding of Grace 
Church, March 28, 1821: 



Cornelius I. Bogert $l5o 

Mary Codwise 5 

L. E. A. Eigenbrodt 300 

Nancie Gracie 500 

Mrs Harvey 20 

Mrs. Hyler 20 

Rufus Ki-ng 500 

John A. King 200 

B. T. Kissam 100 

Timothy Nostrand 300 

Nathaniel Prime 50 

Prime, Ward & Sands 100 

Abiathar Rhodes 5 5 

Lawrence Roe 100 



Silas Roe ;?550 

Joseph Roe 40 

Gilbert Roe 3 5 

Benjamin Rowland 50 

John Skidmore 50 

Gilbert H. Sayres 25 

Joseph Thatford 10 

Anfl Vandervoort 25 

John Van Nostrand 25 

Adrian Van Sinderen 20 

Samuel Ward Sr 50 

Hannah Wickham 25 

William Punti^e 10 



Besides the above there were the following persons who 
were pewholders from July 3, 1823, to 1825: 



Mrs. Brewer 
John B. Codwise 
Lawrence Denton 
Cornelius Duryea 
Miss Dawson 
Mrs. Dyson 
Mrs. Forbes 
Samuel Greenoak 
Smith Hicks 
John Hoagland 
Mrs. Hicks 
Mrs. Jackso-n 
Joh« T. Jones 
James Brooks 
Benjamin Kissam 
Henry Kneeland 
Mr. Lyde 
Charles McNeill 
William McKay 
Andrew Napier 
Frederick Poihemus 
William Puntine 



John B. Roe 
Lawrence Roe 
Ida Rowland 
James Smith 
Jeremiah Simonson 
Mrs. Bowe 
Joseph Sealy 
John Sproull 
John Thatford 
John Titus 
Mrs. Tapp 

Thomas S. Townsend 
Mrs. Troup 
Jeremia Valentine 
James Valentine Sr. 
James Valentine Jr. 
Samuel Ward Jr. 
Nancy Welling 
Samuel Welling 
John Welling 
Mrs. Brasher 



182 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Subscriptions for Rebuilding a Church of Free Brown 
Stone, May 8, 1861. 



John A. King $1,000 

William J. Cogswell 250 

Dr. George H. Kissam .... 250 

He<idrick Brinckerhoflf .... 250 

John C. S,toothoff 100 

George Nostrand 100 

Thomas Welling 100 

John L. Denton 250 

Jeremiah Valentine 125 

John Skidmore 100 

David W. Skidmore 100 

Peggy and Ann Kissam ... 100 

Daniel Smith 100 

J. J. Brenton and Sons .... 75 

Ann Ely SO 

James T. Lewis 25 

Misses Valentine 100 

James Ashby 25 

George N. Codwise SO 

James Weedein 25 

Mrs. Catherine Napier .... SO 

Gifts from 1849 to 1894. 



Andrew Napier $ 5o 

Martha and Devine Hewlett 100 

Mrs. Adela Bell '5 

Sarah Maria Van Wyck .... 100 

Martha Kingsberry 5 

Mrs. M. G. Johnson 100 

Alexander Hagner 50 

Miss Harriet Cornwell .... 10 

John A. King, Jr 100 

Cornelius Duryea 100 

William Betts, L.L.D 250 

William J. Sayres 50 

Nathaniel Vanderverg So 

Robert Ray 50 

Miss Elizabeth Gelston .... 25 

Benjamin Curtis 10 

Mrs. Job Jackson 50 

Charles R. King 25 

Joseph H. Skillman 100 

$4,455 



GIFTS. 

Silver communion tankard 

Silver collection plate 

Baptismal font 

Eagle lectern, memorial to Mary 
King, 1873 

Silver a^nd gold alms basin, me- 
morial to Catherine L. Eigenbrodt 

Saint Cecilia window, memorial 
to Theodora Brentofl Gardiner.. 

Altar book rest 

Silver paten 

Silver and gold baptismal bowl .... 

Altar cross 



DONATORS. 

Ladies of the parish 1849 

Miss Rachel Valentine 1861 

Mrs. Sarah Rogers King ....1862 

Miss Cornelia King 1878 

1881 

1885 

Mrs. Adelia Gale 1888 

Miss Cornelia King 1892 

Miss Cornelia King 1892 

Mrs. Harriet Seabury Crane . .1894 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



183 



Gifts for the Building of tlie New Sanctuary, 1901-1902. 
(From Treasurer's Report) 



Mary Rhinelander King 
memorial to John A. 
aiid Mary C. King . . . .$7,i 

Mr. P. K. Meynen 

Mr. Franic D. Denton . . 

Miss J. Gertrude Ward. . 

Mrs. Helen L. Hicks. . . . 

Mrs. Emily H. Betts. . . . 

Mrs. Geo. W. Damon. . . . 

Miss Virginia Cogswell.. 

Miss Eirene Ladd 

Miss C. O. Aymar 

Mr. J. A. Lodge 

Mrs. W. D. Llewellyn. . . . 

Mr. W. D. Llewellyn. . . . 

Cash 

Cash 

Miss Gould 

R. E. Pofld 

Mrs. R. E. Pond 

C. W. Burtis 

Mrs. Johnson 

Miss C. C. Lyon 

Cash 



For Decorating Walls. 

Mrs. Emily H. Betts $ 20.00 





Cash $ 


1.00 




F. T Martin 


5.00 


57.58 


Mrs. F. T. Martin 


5.00 


50.00 


C. G. Smyth 


5.00 


50.00 


Mr. F. J. Cogswell 


25.00 


10.00 


Mr. Alden S. Crane 


25.00 


50.00 


Mr. Charles M. Hunt. . . . 


5.00 


25.00 


Mrs. Annie S. Hu«t . . . . 


5.00 


15.00 


Mr. F. D. Andreu 


10.00 


4.00 


Rev. H. 0. Ladd . . . 


25.00 


3.00 


Mr. Lovatt 


5.00 


5.00 


Mr. C. Blonde! 


15.00 


10.00 


Mrs. Goodman 


10.00 


26.64 


Mr. John S. Denton. . . . 


200.00 


73.36 


Mr. H. A. Johnson 


40.00 


10.00 


Mr. B. J. Breciton 


250.00 


5.00 


Mr. C. C. Napier 


150.00 


2.00 


Mrs. Julia E. Napier. . . . 


50.00 


5.00 


Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. 




5 00 


Kirby 


25.00 


10.00 


Mr. W. S. Cogswell, me- 




10.00 


morial 


250.00 


10.00 


Mr. John Alvin Young. . 


250.00 


3.00 







Mrs. S. S. Stocking 



50.00 



Gifts for Memorials in New Chancel and Sanctuary. 

Mr. John M. Crane, organ, memorial to Harriet Seabury 

Crane $2,500.00 

Mrs. N. M. and Charles Belden, carved seats, memorial 

to Rev. S. S. Stocking 258.50 

Mrs. S. S. Stocking, chancel w^indow, memorial to Rev. 
S. S. Stocking 

Mr. C. C. Napier, communion rail, memorial to his 

parents, brothers and sisters 360.50 

Mr. James L., John S., and George Denton, pulpit, 
memorial to ancestors 

Mr. Theodore Johnson, marble altar and steps, memor- 
ial to Rev. William Lupton Johnson, D. D., 400.00 



184 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

William D. Wood, M. D., memorial processional cross. 

Mrs. Jane Fleury and Charles J. Stewart, two candle- 
sticks, memorial to James Fleury Stewart 

Mrs. Jane H. Horan, two altar vases 

Col. William S. and Mr. Francis J, Cogswell, carved 
oak reredos, memorial to William J. and Alma 
Sterling Cogswell 

Rev. Charles M. Belden, rector's prayer desk, memorial 
Rev. S. S. Stocking 

Altar Guild, credence table 

Miss Hester J. Boyd, red vestments for altar and pulpit. 

Mrs. Hortense Campbell Lee, violet vestments for altar 
and pulpit 

Miss J. Eirene Ladd and Miss H. Virginia Cogswell, 
two brass vases for the altar 

Mrs. George C. Damon, a fair linen cloth for the altar. 

The Altar Guild, a red dossal and a linen surplice for the 
crucifix 

Later Gifts from 1896 to 1910. 

Altar Linen, from members of the Altar Guild, 1896 to 1902 

Private Communion Service, given by Mr. and Mrs. Philip 

K. Meynen, • 1899 

Mrs. R. C. McCormick, St. Paul window, memorial to 

Richard C. McCormick, 1903 

Mrs. Mary Sheaff Glover Mills, portrait of Rev. Thomas 

Colgan, memorial to Mary C. J. S. Hoyt, 1903 

Mr. Michael Pette, Annunciation window, memorial to Lydia 

Euler Pette, 1908 

Memorial to Mrs. Anna Duer Breck, rugs for vestry room, 1908 
Mrs. William Unwin, quartered oak settle with cushions, 

furniture for vestry room, memorial to Mr. William 

Unwin, 

Mr. William D. Llewellyn, silver collection plate 1910 

Mrs. Mary Wilcockson Llewellyn, silver collection plate, 

memorial to Mabel Brenton Skidmore, 1910 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



185 



Donations to Grace Church Funds, since 1867. 



DATE. 

Walter Nichols 18 79 

Estate of Keziah Griffin 1885 



John Napier 
Cornelia Kinng 



" Sarah Valentine 



— John A. Kin)f and family. . 
Estate of Mary McFarland. . . . 
Estate of John Alsop King. . . 
Heirs of John Alsop King. . . . 
Estate of Ann Augusta Simon- 
son 

Estate of J. Bancroft Davis.. 

Mary E. Rowland. . 

Susan Pettit 

Caroline King . . . . 

Rachel Ann Speed- 
ing 

Deborah J. Rhodes. 

James Gore King. . 

Jenny Cook 

Charles C. Napier. . 

Mary Rhinela<ider 
King 

Trinity Church, New York, 
proceeds from sale of lot 
68, Trinity Place, specified 
use 

Trinity Church, balance of pro- 
ceeds from sale of 58 Reade 
street 



1868 
1897 
1897 
1897 
1899 
1899 
1896 
1897 
1867 
1873 

1873 
1895 
1899 
1901 
1901 

1901 
1904 
1909 
1910 
1910 
1910 



OBJECT. AMOUNT. 

For the Sunday School.. 5 300 
Churchyard and poor of 

parish 6,500 

Sunday School 500 

Woman's Missionary Ass'n 500 

Poor of parish 500 

Churchyard 1,000 

Churchyard 200 

Church 600 

Chimes 1,000 

Parish house fund 200 

Churchyard 1,000 

Churchyard sales of plots 3,723.51 

Churchyard 500 

Churchyard 250 

Churchyard 300 

Churchyard 1,000 

Churchyard 1,000 

Churchyard SO 

Churchyard 1,000 

Churchyard 100 

Churchyard 100 

Churchyard 400 

Church fund 600 



1910 Church endowment 



1910 Church endowment 



1910 



3,000 



38,052.57 



9,771.84 



Unconditional Gifts to Churchyard Endowment Fund. 



Estate of Josephine Rowland. 1911 
" " Foster Hendrickson 
" " Benjamin J. Brenton 1912 
" " Margaret Thompson 1913 

Dr. F. Delafield $100 

Mrs. Horan 10 

J. Augustus Lodge 10 

Francis J. Cogswell 25 

Mrs. Susan Johnson 100 

Eliza Suydam 25 

C. E. Butler 5 



Churchyard 400 

Churchyard 250 

Churchyard endowment. . 1,000 

Churchyard 500 , 

Mrs. Beverley Robinson .... 25 

Mrs. Mary E. Green 26 

Mrs. J. W. Smith 150 

Mrs. C. L. Underhill 150 

Miss E. J. Suydam 25 



$846 



186 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Gifts to Churchyard Endowment Fund with covenanted 
conditions, in perpetuity, 1911. 



Mrs. Alice Davis 

Miss Ellen King 

Mrs. James Gore King ... 

H. Van Rensselaer 

Mrs. Elizabeth G. Hardy . 
Mrs. Elizabeth F. King ... 
Mrs. J. Bancroft Davis... 

Miss Sarah Grace Duer 

Miss Amy H. Duer 

Miss Isabella C. King 

Mrs. Eugene Schuyler.... 
Mrs. Elizabeth V. R. Ells- 
worth 



2,000 


Mr. 


2,000 


Mrs. 


1,000 


Mr. 


1,000 


Mrs. 


800 


Mrs. 


400 


Mrs. 


250 


Mrs. 


250 


Mrs. 


250 


Mrs. 


200 


Mrs. 


160 


Mrs. 



Denning Duer 100 

Mrs. Nora King Buckley.... 25 

Charles King 25 

Anna V. R. Duer 25 

Charles King 25 

Alice Bayard Edgar. . . . 500 

Elizabeth Fisher King. 300 

Frances King Duer.... 50 

Rebecca Gore Davis... 250 

Elizabeth Fisher King. . 300 

Frances K. Ward 50 

Mr. John Alsop King 500 



100 



OF GRACE CHURCH 187 



CHAPTER XXI. 

Wardens and Vestrymen of Grace Church, Elected Under 

the Charter. 

Elected. Died. 

Aymar, Samuel Swift, 185 1 1897 

Baker, Byron D., 191 1 

Barden, Edward, 1794 

Barker, Dr. Charles H., '^'^77 1893 

Belden, Dr. Clinton A., 1883 1898 

Betts, Richard, 1761 

Betts, Thomas, 1761 1776 

Betts, Richard, 1808 

Betts, William, LL. D., 1840 

Blondel, Charles, 1894 

Braine, Thomas, 1761 

Brenton, James J., 1854 

Brenton, Benjamin J., 181 1 1884 

BrinckerhoflF, Hendrick, 1842 1865 

Brown, Josiah, 1799 1814 

Clarkson, Levinus, Capt., 1795 1812 

Codwise, George, Jr., 1799 1816 

Codwise, George Nelson, 1865 1873 

Cogswell, William J., 1842 1885 

Cogswell, William S., Col., 1874 

Comes, John, 1761 1770 

Cornwell, Daniel 1825 1842 

Cortelyou, Peter, Col., 1808 1820 

Crane, John M., 1873 1904 

Crane, Alden S., 1905 

Denton, Lawrence, 1821 1836 

Denton, John L., 1830 1870 

Denton, James L., 1872 

Denton, John S., 1874 

Depeyster, James, 1788 1799 



188 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Elected. Died. 

Eigenbrodt, L. E. A., 1817 1828 

French, James B., . .^ 1904 

Gracie, W. R., 1840 1873 

Griswold, Thomas, 1806 1808 

Hagner, Henry I., 1842 1849 

Hag-ner, Alexander, 1861 1880 

Hewlett, John, Sr 1804 1812 

Hewlett, Isaac, 1815 1838 

Hicks, George A., 1877 1893 

Hinchman, Thomas, 1761 1782 

Hinchman, John, I793 1805 

Hicks, Stephen, 1810 1820 

Hitchcock, Daniel M., 1815 

Hoogland, John, 1810 1851 

Howell, Robert, 1764 1776 

Johnson, Martin G., 1867 

Johnson, Henry N., 1893 

King, John Alsop 1836 1867 

King, Richard, 1872 1892 

Kissam, Daniel, lawyer, i793 1812 

Kissam, Daniel, 1803 1848 

Kissam, Dr. Geo. H., 1849 1865 

Llewellyn, William D., 1902 

Lott, Francis, 1886 1896 

Mackrel, James, Sr., 1793 1812 

McNeill, Charles, Sr 1798 1825 

Martin, James, 1798 1831 

Martin, James G., 1842 

Meynen, George K 1892 

Meynen, Philip K., 1908 

Morrell, James, 1796 1813 

Motley, John, Capt., 1799 

Napier, Andrew, 1808 1857 

Napier, John B., 1865 

Napier, Charles C 1896 1910 

Nichols, Walter, 1833 1879 

Nostrand, Timothy, 1806 1831 

Nostrand, George, 1842 

Oborne, Ernest A., 1909 



OF GRACE CHURCH 189 

Elected. Died. 

Oldfield, Joseph, 1812 

Ogden, Dr. Jacob, 1761 1802 

Puntine, William, 1798 1833 

Robinson, Henry B., 1868 1874 

Rhodes, Abiathar, 1813 1850 

Roe, Joseph, Captain 1814 1829 

Roe, Lawrence, 1816 

Roe, Silas, 1816 1831 

Rowland, David, 1802 1821 

Rowland, Jonathan, 1826 1875 

Sale, William A., 1808 1856 

Sayres, Gilbert B., 1903 

Say res, William J., 1869 

Scholey, William 1913 

Sealey, Joseph, 1810 1831 

Sherlock, William, 1761 

Skidmore, John, 1804 1863 

Skillman, Joseph H 1867 

Skinner, Abraham, 1793 1826 

Smith, Samuel, Jr., 1761 

Smith, Christopher, 1788 1805 

Smith, John C, 1832 1859 

Smith, Daniel i860 1865 

Smith, William Wood, 191 1 

Stoughtenberg, Gilbert B., 1912 

Stout, William C, Captain, 1832 

Simonson, Jeremiah 1824 1835 

Thatford, Joseph, 1809 ^^^7 

Thatford, John, Jr 1800 1833 

Titford, Isaac, 1799 

Troup, John, . 1761 1775 

Valentine, Jeremiah, 1813 1850 

Valentine, Jeremiah, Jr., 1850 1875 

Valentine, James, 1829 1865 

Valentine, John, 1831 

Valentine, John H., 1842 1843 

Valentine, Thomas, 1849 1872 

Vandeverg, George, 1857 i860 

Vandeverg, Nathaniel, 1866 



190 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Elected. Died. 

Van Nostrand, Aaron, 1793 1822 

Van Nostrand, John A., 1803 1828 

Van Nostrand, John, 1820 1832 

Welling, Thomas, 1793 181 1 

Welling, Samuel, 1799 1823 

Welling, William, 1856 1867 

Whitehead, Benjamin, 1761 1780 

Witherstine, W. C, 1914 

Wood, Philip M., M. D., 1913 

Wood, William D., M. D., 1894 1903 

Woolley, Samuel T., 1852 




Grace Church Interior, hjoo. 
(Photograph by C. C. Napier.) 



V 

THE RECTORSHIP OF HORATIO 

OLIVER LADD. A. M., S. T. D. 

1896-1910 



OF GRACE CHURCH 193 



RECOLLECTIONS OF THE RECTORSHIP OF THE 
AUTHOR— 1896-1910. 

Rev. Horatio Oliver Ladd was elected by the Vestry to 
the rectorship of Grace Church, while rector of Trinity 
Church, Fishkill, N. Y., July 20th, 1896. The members 
of the Vestry were Wardens William S. Cogswell and John 
M. Crane, Vestrymen John S. Denton (secretary), Samuel 
S, Aymar (treasurer), Benjamin J. Brenton, and Messrs. 
George K. Meynen, M. D., Henry M. Johnson, William 
D. Wood, M. D., Charles Blondel and Charles C. Napier. 

The salary named in the resolution was $2,000, with 
the use of the rectory at 62 Clinton Ave. The invitation 
to the rectorship was accepted, and after the summer 
weeks had passed, during which the Rev. Canon James 
H. Smith had charge, the new rector met all the communi- 
cants who could be gathered, and officiated for them on 
the first Sunday in October, having brought his family to 
the rectory in the latter part of September. His first ser- 
mon was from I Cor., viii, 1, ''Charity edifieth," and he 
took for the type of his ministry to this parish the rector- 
ship of the Rev. Thos. Colgan, and his words shortly after 
assuming the same office: "At peace with the sectaries 
around us I shall be of a loving charitable demeanor to 
every persuasion." 

The officials of Grace Church had explained the two 
great needs of the parish to be met if possible by the new 
rector. One was the enlargement of the sanctuary, and 
the other the erection of a suitable parish house. To ac- 



194 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

complish these, concerning which there were conflicting 
opinions as to which was the most urgent, it was necessary 
to gather the scattered members, to revive the interests of 
the communicants in the sacraments and worship, and to 
make the Sunday School a better representation ,in its 
membership and spirit, of the real but latent strength of 
the parish. 

There had been in the two previous rectorships a great 
depletion by death, removals, and neglect of worship. 
The business life of Jamaica was at a standstill. There 
was no definite record to be found of the communicants, 
so many had disappeared from those nominally reported 
to the Convention. There were sixty-two families on the 
parish list, which was manifestly incomplete, and the 
Sunday School, six months without a rector or regular 
Superintendent, could rally but few classes or pupils. A 
new superintendent, Mr. W. D. Llewellyn, had taken 
charge and was likely to be an efficient aid to the recuper- 
ating of the strength of this important part of church 
nurture, but Mr. Llewellyn did not remain as Superintend- 
ent, to gather in all the results of the energetic effort he 
was putting forth for the young. 

Cards were issued to be filled out by communicants 
present and receiving communion. Parishioners were 
also visited, and by aid of personal inquiries, their names 
were tabulated. An exact religious census of the town, in 
which other Christian organizations co-operated, brought 
remarkable results. About eleven hundred persons in 
Jamaica were recorded as associated with Grace parish in 
preference to any other Christian organization. Efforts 
were made towards more system in the activities of the 
parish, which was divided into districts, and those who 
were willing assigned to their respective duties to care for 



OF GRACE CHURCH 195 

the various interests of Grace Church. Guilds one after 
another were organized for those of different ages. 

The districting of the parish was not an entirely success- 
ful measure, but the guilds performed an important and 
lasting part in the strengthening of the parish. 

The musical part of the services was already inaugu- 
rated, and the work of the choir made more attractive by 
special musical services, as well as in the usual offices of 
the Church liturgy. 

In the first year of this rectorship, there passed from the 
earthly life two parishioners, who had been of the few 
oldest and most active members— Mr. Samuel Swift Ay- 
mar, vestryman and treasurer, died May 10, 1897, and 
Miss Cornelia King the previous year, Dec, 1896. 

Two more useful and respected persons could not have 
been taken from the Church's life in Jamaica. The Vestry, 
who were intimately acquainted with Mr. Aymar, gave 
testimony entered upon their minutes. May 14, of his 
high worth and their affectionate regard: 

"On the removal by death from the membership and 
from the offices of vestryman and treasurer of this Church, 
of Samuel S. Aymar, we recognize the loss of one whose 
life gave evidence of his unfailing devotion to the inter- 
ests of this parish. Always a Christian, he was diligent, 
prompt, and upright in business relations, and faithful to 
his many trusts. A gentleman in the kindness and 
courtesy of his dealings with those whom he met, he was 
pure in heart as he was in speech. Charitable in spirit, he 
was a friend to all. A communicant of the Church for 
nearly fifty years, and a vestryman for nearly thirty-five 
years, by the constancy of his faith and the innocency of 
his life he has left an example worthy of emulation." 



196 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Miss Cornelia King was stricken by apoplexy the day 
preceding the first Thanksgiving Day of the rector with 
his people, and lay unconscious till her death a week after. 
She was the eldest daughter of Governor King, whose 
memory she venerated, and whose virtues she continued 
in her life in the Church and diocese. Her charities were 
constant, her influence positively Christian, her spirit lov- 
able, and its expression forcible and rugged. Her leader- 
ship among the women of the Church and diocese was 
accepted for its faith, wisdom, generosity and devotion to 
the Church, while her station in society gave her unques- 
tioned influence in the larger growth of its charitable in- 
stitutions and missionary work. Bishop Littlejohn said of 
her in his convention address: 

"As President of the Board of Associates of the Church 
Charity Foundation and President of the Board of Man- 
agers of St. Phebe's Mission House, she labored inces- 
santly to increase the support and to extend the usefulness 
of both. There was no charity or mission in the diocese 
that did not command her sympathy, and when needed 
her active help. There was much in her work, her life 
and her character that recalled many of the Godly women 
who figure in the gospel narratives and in the epistles of 
St. Paul. She was called from us at a ripe old age, and 
after a brief illness, leaving behind a blessed memory and 
carrying with her the love and veneration of all who 
knew her." 

A few months before this rectorship began (in 1896), 
Rev. Samuel T. Stocking passed away at the advanced age 
of eighty-six years. He finished his life in the large man- 
sion on Clinton Avenue where for some years he main- 
tained a boys' school in retirement from the duties of a 
parish priest in what is now Massapequa, Long Island, 



OF GRACE CHURCH 197 

and of which church he was made rector emeritus. He 
and his devoted wife were prominent members of Grace 
Church parish, and kindly remembered by many pupils 
who had come under his training there, and in St. Mark's 
Hall, a school which he established in l85o, in West 
Orange, adjoining St. Mark's Church, where he was rector 
from 1851 to 1861. To the last he was a staunch defender 
of the faith, order and worship of the Church, of very 
positive convictions which he was fond of discussing with 
others, who were able to defend their ov/n. Bishop Little- 
john said of him : 

"His character, like his bodily frame, was solid, well- 
proportioned and weighty. It implied rather than ex- 
pressed decision of will and energy in action. The power 
to deal heavy blows and to lead feebler natures was evi- 
dently in it, but this power was by the innate gentleness 
and courtesy of his disposition subdued into a silent part- 
ner in the business of life. 

"Though he lived well on towards the close of the nine- 
teenth century, his habits of thought, his view of the world 
about him, his criticism of conduct and manners, his bear- 
ing in society, his ideals of life and character, his theology 
and style of preaching, the books that he read, the authori- 
ties that he consulted, his pastorate of souls, his mode of 
working a parish, all belonged to the first half of the cen- 
tury. * * '•= He died in the faith and fear of God's 
holy name, and he left behind him the memory of a char- 
acter and a career which those who knew him best will 
long cherish with loving interest." 

The Rev. Beverley Robinson Betts, who passed the 
greater part of his life in Grace parish, entered into the 
rest of Paradise on Whitsunday, May 21st, 1899, in his 



198 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

72d year. He was born in Greenwich Street, New York 
City, the son of Justice William Betts. He was descended 
from Lord Stirling, who inherited his title from the Scottish 
Earl Stirling, and was major-general in the Army of the 
Revolution, having had command of nearly all the forces 
of the army under General Washington. His mother was 
a Miss Robinson, granddaughter of Col. William Duer, 
and her grandmother was a daughter of Lord Stirling. Mr. 
Betts' ancestor, Richard Betts, settled in Massachusetts 
Bay Colony in 1642. Mr. Betts lived on a large ancestral 
estate in Jamaica, called Merriwood in late years, having 
married, October 6, 1892, Miss Emily Henrietta Nisbett, 
the daughter of an English clergyman, Rev. James Nisbett. 

Rev. Beverley R. Betts was a clej;gyman of marked 
literary tastes, and wrote articles for various church re- 
views. He had means to gather a large library, of special 
value in its biography and genealogical character. He 
left a voluminous genealogical history written in' the 
clearest script. He was an authority also in heraldry. He 
was librarian of Columbia University for fifteen years. 

As a clergyman he was self-denying, devout, and dili- 
gent, occupying the rectorship in Woodsburgh, Long 
Island, five years, and at Maspeth seventeen years, from 
which he resigned in 1865, and came to the old homestead 
in Jamaica, v/here he lived as a retired minister and an 
honored member of Grace Church and Parish. Mr. Betts 
was devoted to his father during years of his affliction, and 
gave a beautiful example of filial piety to the community. 
He was kind, gentle, loving, always seeking peace and 
was truly a Christian gentleman. Reverend Doctor 
Charles Olmstead and Rev. George Houghton assisted the 
rector in the funeral services at Grace Church. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 199 

Two members ol the King family should have their me- 
morial in this rectorship, yet they for many years were not 
residents of Jamaica. Hon. John Alsop King and his 
daughter, Miss Mary Rhinelander King, were connected 
with the Church of All Saints in Great Neck, L. I., near 
which was their home; but they visited Grace Church 
statedly at Christmas and Easter communions, thus re- 
newing their associations with their ancestors. 

Their names are perpetually linked together in Grace 
Church, through the memorial sanctuary erected as the 
gift of Miss Mary R. King to the glory of God and the 
loving memory of her parents. 

Hon. John A. King, the grandson of Rufus King, was 
born in Jamaica in 1817, was graduated at Harvard in 
1835, studied law and was admitted to the bar, and for a 
while practised law in New York City. He was the 
Republican Presidential elector in 1872 and a State Senator 
in 1871-75. He was the President of the New York His- 
torical Society, a member of the St. Nicholas Society, the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum 
of Natural History. Senator King, as he was called, was 
a generous and constant supporter of Grace Church, and 
he was buried in Grace Churchyard. The services, held 
in St. Thomas' Church, New York, were attended by 
Bishops Leonard and Worthington, and the Rev. Dr. 
George Williamson Smith, President of Trinity College. 
A prayer was offered by his rector. Rev. Kirkland Huske, 
at the committal, and a large number of Mr. King's family, 
relatives and friends in attendance in the churchyard cast 
flowers in profusion upon the grave of one of the most 
distinguished sons of Jamaica. 

Miss Mary Rhinelander King emulated the virtues of 
her beloved Aunt Cornelia, through whose example she 



200 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

was early led to that wide and tender sympathy which 
made her one of the church's constant and most generous 
benefactors. She hiherited a large fortune, which was 
distributed with a rare sagacity; a gracious readiness, an 
unheralded charity characterized her, and her lovely and 
far-reaching benevolence extended to friends and strang- 
ers, to educational institutions in her own and foreign lands, 
to hospitals and orphanages, to the poor and distressed, 
and to the farthest limits of the missionary fields of the 
world. Her cheerful spirit refused to yield to many pros- 
trations of health, and in her last wasting sickness of 
many months, she made one of the most remarkable wills 
that ever devised a large fortune. Miss Mary King was 
active in all the societies of the diocese in which women 
had the direction and a liberal supporter as well as wise 
manager of their executive aiTairs. She was specially 
beloved by the church and community where her religious 
life was begun and stimulated in the remarkable famfly to 
which she belonged. 

Among her benefactions are the memorial to her parents 
in the building of the new sanctuary, vestry and choir of 
Grace Church in 1901, and the complete furnishings and 
surgical appointments of the operating room of Jamaica 
hospital. For ten or twelve years the archdeaconry of 
Queens and Nassau and the parish committees received 
her hearty support. 

The tributes of her former rector. Rev. Doctor Smith, to 
both her father and herself at the consecration of the sanc- 
tuary may well express our gratitude for the service of God 
manifested in such lives. 

Mr. Benjamin J. Brenton was a lay reader in Grace 
Church for nearly fifty years. A native of Jamaica, he 



OF GRACE CHURCH 201 

belonged to a family who had been staunch churchmen 
and supporters of Grace Church from 1835, when their 
ancestor came from Rhode Island to Long Island. Mr. 
Brenton held a confidential business position in New York 
all his life, remaining in the same concern until he was 
retired a few months before his decease. He also assisted 
his father and brother in the conduct of the Long Island 
Democrat, and developed literary tastes in editorial work. 
He was an intelligent reader of books, and a guide, for 
many years, to others who were associated with him in 
the Chautauqua courses, and other reading circles. Mr. 
Brenton had a social disposition and many friends in the 
church and community. His hand was always ready to 
dispense a wise charity and to aid in church activities and 
improvements. He became vestryman in succession to 
his brother, waiting many years for his opportunity, and 
he died the oldest member of the vestry, where he had 
served the church twenty-seven years. Mr. Brenton sent 
to the rector, under date of Dec. 12, 1904, this statement 
of his connection with the establishing of missions of 
Grace Church, at Richmond Hill and Queens, which are 
now prosperous churches: 

'i have no exact data to go by in relation to the estab- 
lishing of our mission services at Richmond Hill. It was 
in 1866 or 1867, that the Rev. Thomas Cook, first assist- 
ant minister to Rev. Doctor Johnson, and afterward for a 
while minister in charge at Grace Church, commenced 
services at Richmond Hill. They were first held in the 
station house of the L. I. R. R. I took charge in alternating 
Sundays, sometimes Theodore J. Cogswell, also a lay 
reader of Grace Church, took my place, while I went to 
help along the Queens mission, which Mr. Cook was car- 
rying on with the assistance of Mr. Cogswell. When Mr. 



202 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Cook was appointed to the charge of missions in Suflfolk 
County, I was left nearly tv/o years in sole charge of Rich- 
mond Hill mission, whose services were then held in an 
upper room over a carpenter shop. The room was fitted 
up for our use like a chapel. In 1872 the Rev. George 
Williamson Smith was called to Grace Church, and he with 
me alternating kept up the services until they were strong 
enough at Richmond Hill to set up for themselves." 

Mr. and Mrs. Brenton reared four children, two of 
whom survived their father, Mrs. MacDonald, and Rev. 
Cranston Brenton, professor of English Literature in 
Trinity College, a distinguished and eloquent preacher of 
the Diocese of Connecticut. He has very recently been 
called to the secretaryship of the Education Department 
of Church Missions in New York. His father died after 
a protracted illness in his home in Jamaica in 1911. 

In the first six years of this rectorship there were five 
changes in the leadership of the choir: Mr. F. E. Hopkins 
was succeeded by Mr. Ernest T. Winchester. After him 
came Mr. N. Kimberley Ferris, who was followed by Alger 
E. Weeden and Henry G. Spiller of White Plains. There 
was an impetus given to the choir by each of these musi- 
cians, and the great musical compositions presented on 
feast days and at special seasons of Christmas and Easter- 
tide secured a remarkable attendance from the community, 
which not only filled the church but sometimes exceeded 
its capacity. This, however, was an annoyance to some 
of the conservative members of the Vestry and Church, 
who were rather exclusive in their ideas of the proper uses 
of a church building. 

The Altar Guild of Grace Church was organized in Nov., 
1897, and a constitution and by-laws adopted as a perma- 



OF GRACE CHURCH 203 

nent institution of tlie Church. The rector and six mem- 
bers were present at the lirst meeting, and the officers 
elected were Mrs. Philip K. Meynen, directress, Miss Vir- 
ginia Cogswell, sub-directress. Miss Annie K. Cooke, 
treasurer. Miss Elizabeth Brenton, secretary. All Saints' 
Day was adopted as their anniversary day for a Corporate 
Communion service, and regular monthly meetings were 
held. The following year, in July, 1898, Mrs. Meynen 
resigned, and Miss Cogswell was elected directress, which 
office she held for this whole rectorship, and continued 
into that of Rev. Mr. Homans. The care of the altar 
linen, vestry room, altar hangings, decorations and fur- 
nishing of needed articles and appointments devolved on 
this very important guild. An appropriation was annually 
made for their use by the Vestry, and many private gifts 
secured by the members for the enlargement and beauti- 
fying and perfecting of altar service, and an orderly and 
reverent celebration of the Holy Communion. All the 
saints days and greater festivals of the Church were main- 
tained by the members of the guild with other communi- 
cants. Among the associate members who became liberal 
contributors to the work were Mrs. Sarah S. Stocking, 
Mrs. Martin S. Rapelyea and Mrs. Philip K. Meynen. 

During the first five years some of the most active, con- 
stant and efficient members of the guild were Miss Eirene 
Ladd, Mrs. F. T. Martin, sub-directress, Miss Josephine 
Stehlin, and Mrs. Theodore R. White. Miss Ladd con- 
tinued an indefatigable member through the whole rector- 
ship. Miss Elizabeth Brenton became till her last illness 
the efficient and zealous secretary of the Guild. 

One of the most important eflforts of this guild was to 
get stated gifts of flowers through the year, memorial of 
departed communicants and friends. Mr. C. C. Napier, 



204 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Mrs. Beverley Belts, Mrs. S. S. Stocking, Miss Nesbitt, 
Mrs. Andreu, and several others were the first regular con- 
tributors in this way, under the direction of the guild, to 
the services of the church, and a handsome white altar 
vestment, a pulpit hanging, a litany desk and a private 
communion service for the use of the rector in his visita- 
tion of the sick were gifts, the products of their handiwork 
or incited by the early eiTorts of the members of the Altar 
Guild. 

The St. Cornelia Flower Guild was organized on the 
17th of June, 1897, with 14 members. It was named in 
memory of Miss Cornelia King, a lifelong member of 
Grace Church and a conspicuous friend and promoter of 
charities in the diocese. It was intended to interest very 
young girls in charitable work, and train them for larger 
activities of this kind. The special purpose at first of this 
guild was to send flowers to the tenerrient districts in the 
crowded city, taking a little sunshine to the lives of the 
people there. The members met and made flowers into 
bouquets which were sent to the Fruit and Flower Mission 
connected with St. Michael's Church, Brooklyn. From 
its first organization till Oct. 28th, the first year, 1043 
bouquets were sent. 

Then a Christmas box full of clothing, candy and toys 
was sent to Tennessee and Virginia, to schools for colored 
and white children. During Lent a box was made up of 
night-dresses, scrap-books and bedding for the little pa- 
tients of St. Giles the Cripple, Brooklyn. For several 
years such work was continued, and programs of music 
and recitations and talks carried out for the interest and 
instruction of the workers and older people of the parish. 
The membership increased to thirty-five or forty, and the 
members became active in the older guilds. The officers 



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in charge were Miss Florence Detlieridge, tlie Misses Simon- 
son, and other members of the Kings Daughters. Misses 
Edna N. Baker, Ethalinda Jackson, Florence and Frances 
Andreu, Miss Lillian Smyth, and Anna Margaret and 
Isabel Morris were some of its most active members. 

The Sunday School had at this time two efficient officers 
in Albert B. Purchase, secretary, and Clarence A. Purchase, 
librarian. The former was an active member of those 
organizations which looked towards a larger influence of 
the Church, and continued a valuable help in its extension 
for several years, until, broken in health, he removed to 
Arizona with a young wife, only to return a few years 
after to die in Jamaica, his native town. He was a lawyer 
by profession and a progressive and earnest communicant 
and citizen. 

The assistance of Mr. Roeliflfe H. Brooks, who was 
appointed Oct., 1897, as lay reader and superintendent of 
the Sunday School, and a visitor representing the rector 
in the homes of the people, contributed largely to the re- 
vived activities and guild work. Mr. Brooks was a stu- 
dent in Columbia University, and gave part of his time to 
these ministrations. He undertook, at the rector's request, 
the organization of the Parish Sunday School Guild, having 
the interests of the Sunday School as a special care, while 
also in charge of the Cathedral mission at Dunton. This 
guild was organized in and held its meetings at the home 
of Miss Hester Boyd, who became for several years its 
recognized leader, assisted by committees of young 
women, and young men also, who provided entertain- 
ments of a literary and historical character, with tableaux 
and short plays, followed by refreshments. The Christ- 
mas and Easter festivals took on a new life and popularity 
under their management, and also the annual excursions 



206 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

of the scholars and members of the parish. The school 
filled to its entire capacity the school building in the third 
year of this rectorship. Mr. Brooks continued for several 
years to assist the rector. After taking a full course of 
study and graduating from Columbia University and the 
General Theological Seminary, he became a popular as- 
sistant at the Church of the Messiah in Brooklyn, and after 
his marriage was elected to St. Paul's Church, Albany, 
where he is still a loved and successful rector, with a large 
and increasing influence, especially among men. 

The Sunday School Guild to which he was devoted in its 
first and most difficult years, became in the course of this 
rectorship the Grace Parish Social Guild, which, with 
nearly one hundred members, grew to be the most import- 
ant guild for all the social and material growth of Grace 
Church, with a systematic organization, and a responsible 
official board. 

Mr. Brooks also reorganized the Boys' Club of Grace 
Church, in March, 1900. This he conducted for several 
years, awakening the interest and enthusiasm of the boys, 
who were wisely led by him in their athletic sports and 
assisted in their literary and musical entertainments. 

The rector had instituted during the first year a parish 
paper, Grace Church Chimes. Assisted at first by the 
Vestry in the expense of its publication, it was afterwards 
mainly supported by village advertisements. The Sun- 
day School Guild undertook for two years the cost of 
printing and the distribution of the Chimes, which was 
edited and conducted by the rector. Afterwards the entire 
responsibility of this paper returned to the rector, who, 
being assisted by Misses Eirene Ladd and H. V. Cogswell, 
published it till the close of the rectorship in 1909, and 



OF GRACE CHURCH 207 

made it self-supporting through subscriptions and adver- 
tisements. The Chimes was published monthly ten times 
a year, and made when bound a large quarto volume. 

The Chimes was a valuable instrumentality of this 
rectorship, and continued to its end. The rector was 
aided in its publication by the secretaries of the guilds, who 
contributed their annual reports, and among the special 
contributors was Miss Phebe Hagner, whose papers on 
past events in the parish, the Ladies' Missionary Society 
and the Sunday School preserved valuable material for 
this history of Grace Church. Miss Elizabeth Brenton, a 
woman of fine literary taste, sent interesting reports of the 
Altar Guild work. The rector furnished the principal 
part of each issue, preserving the current history of the 
parish life, with special sermons and addresses aflfecting its 
spiritual and material activities. 

By January 1, 1899, a Directory of Grace Parish was 
completed and published by the rector in the Chimes, and 
afterwards as a separate manual for free distribution. 

The communicants had increased so as to number 3 15. 
Besides these there were names of 100 other single persons 
or heads of families connected with the parish. There 
were 65 pew-holders, some of whom had but one or two 
sittings. The Sunday School numbered 19 officers and 
teachers and 175 scholars. 

But a year after, Jan., 1900, the number of communi- 
cants whose names had been thoroughly revised and iden- 
tified was 320. The families represented in the congrega- 
tion numbered 325. The number of baptized persons in 
the parish was 660, and the Sunday School had a total of 
163 members. The income for all objects of Church 
expenditures, including charities, was $6,095.80. Included 



208 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

in the work and influence of this long established church, 
whose parish limits were so largely extended in its original 
foundation, were now eight Episcopal churches and mis- 
sions holding regular services, gathered and organized 
from Grace Parish since 1872. 

On the last Sunday in the century the rector of Grace 
Church said to his congregation: 

"The century closes on this its last Sunday with aBopeful 
vista opening up before this Church as before our nation 
and the world. From the efforts and failures of the past 
we have learned some wisdom concerning what shall pro- 
mote the prosperity of this Church of Christ. It is not 
only staunch churchmanship, but self-reliance; not only 
steadiness but activity; not only piety but progress; not 
only conservatism but liberality; not only steadfastness 
and patience, but faith and enterprise which laying hold of 
opportunity, put forth the requisite energy to gain the con- 
fidence of men and the blessing of God. 

''We have come to a new century of human achieve- 
ment, the fitting and necessary preparation for which by 
the Church must be material enlargement and intellectual 
and spiritual energies commensurate with the greater 
capacities of mankind and the development of aggressive 
forces for the conflict of sin with righeousness." 

Grace Chapter of the Daughters of the King, organized 
Nov. 20, 1899, with seventeen members, the Junior 
Daughters of the King, and the Crown Circle of the Kings 
Daughters, were, during the whole of this rectorship, 
guilds which were specially active and faithful to their 
principles. The first two were organized in Grace Church 
to promote personal devotion and give aid to the rector in 
influencing strangers and others to attend the Church ser- 



OF GRACE CHURCH 209 

vices. They held meetings for prayer and instruction in 
Christian living, and put their Christian motives to test in 
aiding charitable work. The Juniors were under the di- 
rection of some of the older guild, and were brought to 
their sense of responsibility and duty in keeping their vows 
of baptism, and confirmation. Thus those who were 
sponsors could draw their spiritual charges to the avowal 
of their own faith and obedience to the word of God. 
Under a few faithful ones who kept their membership in 
view in all their Church relations, these guilds flourished. 
Their influence extended to other activities. They were 
tried and faithful and successful teachers in the Sunday 
School. Miss Port, Mrs. Martin, Misses Augusta and 
Sadie Simonson, Miss Cornelias, Miss Gertrude Gale, Miss 
Aline and Miss Bessie Oborne, Miss Pauline Cogswell, and 
Miss Amy Wiltsie were most efficient workers. 

The Circle of the Kings Daughters, choosing especially 
charitable work, sent many boxes of clothing to hospitals 
and schools in the mountain districts of the South and 
West. They became finally the branch of the Jamaica 
Hospital Relief Society, and worked specially for its sup- 
port. This Circle included in its membership many mar- 
ried women of the active families of the parish, and was 
efficient in good works. 

These guilds were specially helpful in training workers 
for the nurture of the young in the Sunday School. The 
Primary Department of the Sunday School was a field for 
such important Christian work. Its most flourishing 
periods were under those who, like Miss Hester Boyd, Miss 
Augusta Simonson, and Miss Gertrude Gale, were among 
the most prominent in the activities of the Daughters of 
the King, and the Kings Daughters, while the Intermediate 
Department was directed by the older married women, 



210 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Mrs. Lilian Ladd Church, Mrs. Philip Meynen, and Mrs. 
Wm. J. Ballard. 

In the years immediately following the beginning of the 
twentieth century, the Parish Social Guild was an evolu- 
tion from the Parish Sunday School Guild, which organ- 
ization had a two-fold purpose, business and social. The 
business part was devoted to the building up of the Sun- 
day School, the publishing of a Church paper, the further- 
ance of the Parish House movement, and other Church 
work. The social part was furnished by the meetings 
which were held twice each month. The members came 
together at these times to transact the business of the guild, 
after which an entertainment of music and recitations and 
light refreshments was given. Any member or teacher of 
the school might become an active member of the guild, 
while all others interested in the work could become asso- 
ciate members. The guild in a few months had 36 mem- 
bers, of whom 26 were active and ten were associates. 

Gradually the other people were drawn to the meetings 
and membership. The entertainments became more elab- 
orate, historic tableaux, in which young and old joined, 
amateur plays, physical exercises by classes from the public 
schools, dramatic readings and pantomimes, occasional ad- 
dresses with illustrations by pictures or acting, songs by 
musical unions and charades interested young and old, 
while, in the hour given to refreshments, the social spirit 
was cultivated, and strangers an'd newcomers into the 
parish were made acquainted with older parishioners. 

The canvassing of the parish was the duty of one of the 
committees that proposed new members; the conduct of 
Christmas and Easter festivals and of raising of funds for 
the furnishing of a parish house, and the entertaining of 



OF GRACE CHURCH 211 

archdeaconry and other diocesan meetings, came to be the 
province of a guild numbering nearly one hundred mem- 
bers, and directed by the most intelligent and active women 
and a few men co-operating with them. It would be un- 
generous to individualize when so many were thus actively 
employed as presidents, but two or three churchwomen 
were year after year employed in superintending and ap- 
pointing committees and directing the multiplied activities 
of this most useful guild, which became the leading factor 
of social growth and unity in the parish. 

All would ascribe its success in large measure to the 
efforts of the earlier presidents. Miss Hester Boyd, Mrs. 
Kate P. Blanchard, Mrs. Philip Meynen and Mrs. George 
Meynen, and the secretaries, Miss Florence Detheridge 
and Mrs. John Higgins, and Mrs. George Morris, Miss 
Catherine Aymar, the Misses Oborne and Simonson, and 
Miss Port of the Normal School. 

Mrs. Dr. Belden and Mrs. Wm. C. Baker opened their 
spacious houses to musical entertainments of the guild, 
where refreshments were served, and sums of money col- 
lected to buy a piano for the future Parish House, which 
was loaned and used by the Sunday School for many years. 

An opportunity for Grace Church to co-operate with 
other churches in Jamaica and surrounding villages, in a 
work of Christian humanity and patriotism in the summer 
of 1898, brought together their active workers in caring 
for the sick and wounded soldiers transported from Cuba 
in the Spanish-American war. The Jamaica Hospital 
Relief Society was organized to relieve the hospital au- 
thorities from the great care and expense involved in such 
a humane work. On Long Island were located two great 
camps of United States soldiers of this war. Camp Black 



212 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

at Hempstead, for the concentration and instruction of 
volunteer regiments and recruits from the Eastern states, 
and Camp Wycoflf at Montauk, to receive the sick and 
wounded brought back from the West India Islands and 
malarial districts of the South. There were at times 
10,000 to 20,000 soldiers in each camp. A great military 
hospital camp was inaugurated in a few weeks at Mon- 
tauk Point, where steamboats and transports landed 
direct from Cuba the fever stricken and wounded soldiers. 

Thousands lay in long rows of hospital tents, sick and 
dying and exposed to infection from innumerable flies and 
insects, that filled the hot tents. The water was also a 
detriment to health or recovery. These soldiers died by 
scores and hundreds every day, and the burying ground 
opened on the Point — swept by the Atlantic breezes — was 
rapidly dotted with wooden headboards. 

There was a call to distribute these invalid and dying 
soldiers into the hospitals in the seaboard cities along the 
Long Island Sound, and in New York and New Jersey. 

The Jamaica Hospital Board surrendered temporarily 
their new building on New York Avenue andTacilities for 
nursing to the Jamaica Hospital Relief Society, which men 
and women of all the religious societies in town joined, 
contributing to its funds. They also offered and gave their 
personal services to the Society to nurse and care for 
thirty-four patients first brought from Camp Wycoff, and 
subsequently to another installment which filled the Hos- 
pital to its utmost capacity. 

The officers of the Jamaica Hospital Relief Society were 
president. Rev. H. O. Ladd; secretary, Richard W. 
Rhoades; treasurer, Stanley Jordan; vice-presidents, Mrs. 
Clinton A. Belden, Mrs. W. E. Everitt, Mrs. Lewis L. Fos- 



OF GRACE CHURCH 213 

dick, Mrs. Edwin Richmond, Mrs. Feodor Bernhardi, Mrs. 
T. J. Flynn, Mrs. T. W. Lewis, Mrs. Franz Hartig. Execu- 
tive Committee, chairman, J. Browne, Jr., Mrs. Manning 
Smith, M. D., Mrs. W. E. Everitt, Mrs. L. L. Fosdick, Mrs. 
C. A. Belden. Committee on Volunteer Aid, Mrs. Man- 
ning Smith, M D., Mrs. Philip H. Remsen. Committee on 
Sustenance and Clothing, Mrs. Charles H. Harris, Mrs. R. 
Purchase, Miss Maude Ryder, Miss Carey, Mrs. F. E. 
Detheridge. 

Miss Gale, the president of the Hospital, Mrs. Harris and 
Mrs. Remsen of the Trustees and the whole medical staff 
directed by Dr. Geo. K. Meynen, the Chief Surgeon, gave 
unwearied effort, and there was a gratifying harmony be- 
tween the management and voluntary helpers. Mr. J. 
Browne, assisted by the firemen of Jamaica, attended 
daily to the arrangements for supplies, transfers and night 
watching. Rev. Dr. Ladd superintended and effected the 
transportation from Camp Wycoff, and the co-operation 
with the medical authorities there. 

When the hospital seemed full, one Sunday evening, 
twenty-five additional patients arrived, and were disposed 
of, severely testing the skill and patience of those in 
charge. The citizens of Jamaica and Richmond Hill, and 
Hollis and Queens contributed liberally with supplies, and 
the churches made offerings, which were increased by 
private gifts of individuals. 

Some of these soldiers were very sick, others conva- 
lescent from malarial and typhoid fevers. Not one patient 
died, in the three or four months that the hospital was thus 
used. The soldiers were mostly members of the U. S. 
Cavalry regiments, that had been in the battles and 
trenches around Santiago. They showed their gratitude 



214 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

in many ways. Extra trained nurses were provided with 
the voluntary ones, who served in this emergency. 

Mrs. Eldora Ward, the superintendent of the hospital, 
directed with skillthe volunteers who offered themselves 
from the homes and churches of Jamaica. Those who 
served for Grace Church, in this capacity as nurses, were 
Miss Gale, Mrs. Kirby, Mrs. Detheridge, Mrs. George K. 
Meynen and Miss Pauline Goodman. From other congre- 
gations Misses Alma Chadwick, Alice Carey, Eva Ham, 
Maud Pace, Leila Chapin, Kittie E. Lampman, Louise 
Baker, Mrs. Wm. E. Everitt and Mrs. Jesse Brown, Jr. 

The attendants in care of sustenance and diet were Mrs. 
C. K. Beldin, Mrs. F. F. McClintock, Mrs. Manning Smith, 
M. D., Misses Luckey and Gertrude B. Browne. 

Dr. H. S. Harris, chief surgeon of the Cavalry Division 
Hospital, Montauk, and the chairman of the Committee of 
Military Affairs at Washington for President McKinley, 
wrote letters, expressive of their appreciation and gratitude 
for the work done by the officials of the Society, and the 
citizens. There were in all fifty-eight under their care for 
several months. 

An accurate account of the receipts and expenditures 
was kept by the Executive Committee, and by request re- 
ported afterwards with vouchers to the War Department 
at Washington, from which was received over ^850 in 
reimbursement, of which was expended about $350 in pro- 
viding an X-ray apparatus for the operating room, and 
the remainder was given to the building fund of the Hos- 
pital for the new addition made to it. A complete list of 
the soldiers, their regiments and residences was printed in 
Grace Church Chimics, and is preserved in the bound vol- 



OF GRACE CHURCH 215 

ume of this church paper in the Memorial House of Grace 
Church. It is also here given. 

The names of the soldiers who have received care in the 
hospital, nearly all of whom have come from Montauk 
army hospitals and most of them from cavalry regiments, 
are: 

Ernest Dickhert, Troop F, 9th Regt. 

James Snow, Troop F, ist Regt., Gloversville, N. Y. 

Charles Jones, Troop K, 6th Regt., Rome, Ga. 

James Roach, Troop B, 3rd Regt. 

Robert Neppert, Troop K, ist Regt., New York City. 

Charles Huston, Troop F, ist Regt. 

Harry Taylor, Troop F, ist Regt., Chicago. 

Roy Linville, Troop F, 2nd Regt. 

Ira C. Thompson, Troop G, 6th Regt., Philadelphia. 

J. N. Hepburn, Troop C, ist Regt., Hopkins, Mo. 

B. F. Gambrill, Troop B, ist Regt., New York City. 

Daniel Shelley, Troop G, 6th Regt., Philadelphia. 

Edward T. Bennet, Troop C, ist Regt., Chicago 

John Newman, Troop M, ist Regt., Huntington, Tenn. 

Edward Johnson, Troop M, ist Regt., ....Bowling Green, Ky. 

George Fidlar, Troop K, 3rd Regt., Princeton, Mo. 

Henry Millar, Troop M, loth Regt., Louisville, Ky. 

Otto Vockroth, Troop C, ist Regt., Scran ton. Pa. 

Clarence D. Baker, Troop G, ist Regt., Chicago, Ills. 

Thomas Davis, Troop G, 6th Regt., 805 2d Ave., N. Y. C. 

Hugh Hunt, Troop M, ist Regt. 

Arthur Hoefer, Troop D, 2d Regt., Kildare, Oklahoma. 

Shirley Beard, Troop K, 2d Regt., Louisville, K)^ 

Chris Fennern, Troop A, ist Regt., Davenport, la. 

Thomas Cox, Troop B, ist Regt., Troy, N. Y. 

James J. Rhodes, Troop B, 3rd Regt. 

Edwin C. Bracht, 2d cavalry, Fort Smith, Ark. 

Robert Stehr, Troop A, 3rd Regt., Canton, O. 

Charles H. Seavey, Co. E, 21st 111. Inft., . . . .Dannemora, N. Y. 

David Crews, Corp. Co. G, 20th U. S. Inft., Taswell, Ind. 

William Hendron, Sergt., Co. i, ist 111. Vol., Chicago. 

Paul J. Spillane, Co. B, 9th Mass. Vol., Boston, Mass. 



216 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Charles SHney, Co. B, 9th Mass. Vol. Cambridge, Mass 

Albert F. Wesbay, Co. F, 2d Regt. N. Y. M., Ozone Park. 

John J. Meyer, Co. M, 201 N. Y. V Dunton. 

Frank Koph, Co. F, 7th U. S. Inft., Buffalo 

There were at least four men from Grace Church who 
entered in the service of the United States in the Spanish- 
American war: George A. Stevens, of Co. A, Forty-seventh 
Regiment of Infantry, enlisted Sept. 16, 1899, at the age 
of 18 years, was in eight engagements in Southern Luzon, 
and had a record for continuous service of one year, 9 
months and 17 days, as ''honest, faithful and character 
good." He died in less than a year after his return to 
Jamaica. 

Charles G. Smyth enlisted in the 201st Regt.^ N. Y. Vol- 
unteers, and served during the war. He was adjutant 
clerk at Camp Black. 

Harry F. Reed enlisted and became first sergeant, Co. F, 
201st Regt., N. Y. V. He was in active service in the 
Philippines; was promoted to be second lieutenant, en- 
listed in the U. S. Infantry, and rose to the rank of caj^tain 
in the regular army after an honorable career in the 
Philippines. 

George E. Cogswell enlisted in the U. S. Auxiliary naval 
service, where he remained till the close of the war. All of 
these were former members of Grace Church Sunday 
School, three of them communicants of the church. Messrs. 
Smyth and Reed were also members of Grace Church 
choir. Mr. Stevens was confirmed by Bishop Burgess 
shortly before his death. 

On July 31, 1906, entered into life eternal Miss Harriet 
W. Cornwell from her home in Grove St., at the age of 85 
years, 6 months. To no one were the memories and the 




Grace Church. Jamaica. 

Interior. irjo6. 

( P^hotograph by C. C. Napier.) 



OF GRACE CHURCH 217 

prosperity of Grace Church more dear or prayfully cher- 
ished. She had held a singular position in the parish. 
Identified with it from childhood, she belonged to an old 
Long Island family, and was esteemed and loved by numer- 
ous friends and citizens. She was the oldest communicant 
of Grace Church for several years before her decease. Miss 
Cornwell was left early to give loving care to others. She 
maintained a widowed mother and invalid sister, and filled 
a mother's place for five orphan nieces and nephews. Ac- 
cepting these cares cheerfully, she carried on a millinery 
and fancy goods business in the center of Jamaica until she 
was eighty years old, and it was a blessing to her patrons 
to meet her and encourage her. No one was in need, or 
sickness or affliction, who escaped her notice or failed to 
be made known to those who could come to their aid. Her 
spirit was benevolent and charitable, and her regular at- 
tendance at church for many years kept her in touch with 
its life and inspired her prayer and deeds for its prosperity. 
Her last protracted illness proved her patient submission 
to her Heavenly Father's will. Kind and loving hands 
ministered to her to the last, and her works follow her, 
while she has entered into the joy of her Lord. 



218 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



CHAPTER XXI. 

The Parish House, Enlargement of the Sanctuary, Local 
Missions, Bishop Littlejohn. 

The celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the 
organization of Grace Church had already been proposed 
as a time when there should be some worthy gift of Jhe 
people to the service of Him who had wonderfully sus- 
tained her in all her poverty and trials and struggles to 
maintain the principles of the Anglican Church. The 
rector had in many ways kept his project of a parish house 
in the mind of the people. In November, 1898, he had 
made a direct appeal to the congregation and parish, in an 
article in the Chimes, which so fully set forth what the aim 
of such an undertaking was, or should be, that it was pro- 
phetic of what was destined to be accomplished in a later 
rectorship. 

This is such a justification of what the people did after- 
wards attempt to do, that it is here preserved. 

THE USES OF A PARISH HOUSE. 

[From Grace Church Chimes, November, 1898.] 

There is often an indefinite idea of the uses of a Parish House 
which this article will try to make clear. 

It should be understood that our Episcopal churches have, 
rather more than other Christian bodies in America, taken upon 
themselves the character of institutional churches. 

If a church was, as it used to be, simply an organization for 
religious services, it would have no need of any other building 
ihan a house of worship. Two hundred years ago. when Grace 



OF GRACE CHURCH 219 

Church was founded, there were no missionary societies in 
America for the extension of the church in other countries and 
in our own. There were no local missions, no Sunday School 
instruction, no guilds to clothe and feed the needy, no industrial 
schools, no efforts to bring youth together away from secular 
temptations, for exercise, recreation, and mental and moral 
instruction under the control of the church. 

But Christianity has entered into a larger sphere of influence, 
and interprets the spirit of Christ's words and efforts to save 
men, as designed to give them sound minds and bodies, with a 
Godlike character, and to promote purity and happiness in social 
relations. The Church has therefore awakened to the larger 
enthusiasm of Sunday School assemblies, and fosters brother- 
hoods, guilds and social unions. 

Hence our Churches have need of facilities for these works 
as much as for worship. There are those in every congregation 
who forget that in our country and age every generation has 
a broader and higher education than the previous one, and their 
needs and tasks are to be met by the Church in a way which 
corresponds with their advanced culture and associations. 

A parish house therefore includes a large assembly room for 
Sunday School, missionary and ecclesiastical conventions, and for 
other purposes than worship. These are entertainments of a health- 
ful nature, lectures, concerts, social re-unions of a large congrega- 
tion. These frequently recur in a church of historic standing and 
central location in a city and diocese like Grace Church. The fur- 
nishings and embellishments of such a room make it desirable for 
the use of the community. These should be commodious and com- 
fortable, and tasteful as well as churchly in character. 

A gymnasium in a parish house gives a room for the active ex- 
ercise and diversions of the young of both sexes, so as not to inter- 
fere with the order and decorum of the larger assembly room. The 
fees for regular attendance go far to support a gymnasium. 

The guild rooms for the missionary society with their store rooms 
for material and the products of their labor are important features 
in a parish house. The brotherhood and Knights of Temperance 
rooms, the library and reading room provided with books and 
magazines and papers give attractions of a home-like character to 



220 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

those who are wiUing' to avoid saloons, and wovild cultivate a fond- 
ness for reading and study. The rector's room and reception room 
for parishioners make him accessible to the many who seek and 
need his counsel, aid and services. To these are added, when con- 
venient, industrial school rooms and dispensaries for the poor. 

There is one part of the parish house which is peculiarly the 
care and pride of the women — the kitchen and refreshment rooms 
where they can attract and interest their families and friends, and 
show Christian hospitality to brethren and strang^ers of other local- 
ities. 

Grace Church, with such a parish house as this twenty years ago, 
would have added very largely to her numerical and financial 
strength today. The approaching bi-centenary of our church in 
1901 is a point at which every well-wisher for Grace Church will 
aim to have these and an enlarged church building accomplished. 
It is a work urgent now to begin, that it may be finished then. It 
is a work of intense interest to all who shall engage in it. It is 
peculiarly a work for women of the congregation to undertake and 
begin without delay. They can count upon a strong and ready 
support of the men. 

Let them make here a memorial of names and families identified 
with Grace Church in two hundred years of honorable history. They 
will thus memorialize their own active and willing service to Christ. 

This appeal was followed by other eflforts, and was so 
far responded to by the Wardens and Vestry that they 
authorized the rector to engage an architect, Mr. Albert 
Parfitt, of Brooklyn, to make a set of plans embodying the 
ideas of the rector and fulfilling the purposes of a parish 
house. This caused a more definite consideration of the 
project in the parish. When the plans were presented, 
with a builder's estimate of a cost to build and complete 
the parish house for ^25,000, the Vestry were unable to 
agree to undertake the building of so large a structure, and 
voted against it. One hundred dollars was voted to the 
architect for the expense of preparing the plans. They 
were substantially the same that were afterwards made 



OF GRACE CHURCH 221 

for the Memorial House erected at twice the cost on the 
same ground for which these plans were made, but with- 
out the addition of a rectory at the West end, which com- 
pleted the design. 

The project of the enlargement of Grace Church by 
extending the sanctuary was then vigorously presented 
by the rector, and met with more encouragement. Sev- 
eral plans were proposed and sketches drawn by architects. 
The people were interested, and followed the suggestions 
made that those living in Jamaica should not only con- 
tribute themselves to this memorial undertaking but appeal 
to the many families whose ancestors or near relatives had 
been associated with the history of Grace Church, and 
whose churchyard was their last resting-place. 

The near approach of the bi-centennial celebration 
added energy to these efforts. The rector preached a 
sermon in January, 1900, on ''Memorials for God's 
Service," which bore much fruit by the blessing of God on 
his words. It was published in the Chimes and reached 
the whole parish. A committee in the Vestry was ap- 
pointed on the enlargement of the chancel and the pur- 
chase of a new organ. Mrs. S. S. Stocking made the first 
notable donation of a stained glass window over the altar 
for a new sanctuary, to be built by Mayer & Co. of 
Munich, as a memorial of her husband, the Rev. Samuel 
Seabury Stocking. The subject chosen was Christ, send- 
ing forth his Disciples "Go ye into all the world and preach 
the Gospel." This magnificent window, originally de- 
signed for Grace Church, has since been copied for several 
other notable churches in the United States. It harmon- 
ized perfectly with the plans for the sanctuary, which had 
been presented by Messrs. Cady, Berg and See, of New 
York, and adopted by the Vestry. 



222 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

The larger gifts which followed were in the form of 
memorials: an organ by John M. Crane, Esq., in memory 
of his wife, Harriet Seabury Crane; a pulpit by James 
Denton and brothers in memory of ancestors who early had 
been connected with Grace Church and the Vestry; a 
communion rail by C. C. Napier, in memory also of his 
parents, brothers and sisters; a reredos of carved oak by 
W. S. and F. Cogswell, in memory of their parents; and an 
altar of eschallion marble with marble pavements, by Mr. 
Theodore Johnson, in memory of his father, Rev. William 
Lupton Johnson, D. D. The prayer desk and seat, and 
sanctuary seats, were given by Rev. C. A. Belden and 
mother in memory of Rev. S. S. Stocking. 

The crowning memorial of all these and other gifts else- 
where described in this history was the erection of the 
sanctuary itself by Mary Rhinelander King in memory of 
her parents, John A. and Mary Colden King, at a cost of 
nearly eight thousand dollars. 

Work was begun by the contractors, Messrs. O'Connor 
& Booth, on June 3rd. The rear wall of the church was 
removed and the furniture of the church transferred to the 
chapel on Flushing Avenue, which had been refitted by 
the Vestry, and where services were to be held during the 
improvements made in the church. 

The building of the sanctuary, the renovation of the 
church structure, and the erection of the memorials 
required nine months. They were consecrated, and the 
church reopened for services April 9, 1902. The amount 
contributed and expended on these improvements was 
^15,096.68. 

Individual gifts, not entering into the treasurer's reports 
through the Altar Guild and rector's hands, increased this 
sum to over seventeen thousand dollars. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 223 

The subscriptions and donations for the new sanctuary 
amounted to $13,739.10; with $1,357.58 additional, bal- 
ance paid by Miss Mary Rhinelander King, the total was 
$15,096.68. The individual gifts, whose value cannot be 
given, are elsewhere enumerated in this history. 

During these activities and extraordinary gifts of the 
parishioners and communicants and friends of Grace 
Church, there was increased effort to enlarge the local 
mission work of the church. 

On Sunday evening, April 21, 1900, the first Sunday 
after Easter, services of the Church were begun by the 
rector at the residence of Mrs. H. Bisbee at Springfield. 
These were continued for two years with much hopeful- 
ness that a chapel would be erected and the services per- 
manently established. Rev. G. Wharton McMullen, of 
Queens, was placed in charge, under the direction of the 
rector, who also often officiated. In June a regular cele- 
bration of the Holy Communion was instituted for the 
second Sunday of the month, and a class for confirmation 
was prepared by the rector. 

An altar and furnishings and vestments were presented 
by the Church people in Roslyn, Queens, and the Kings 
Daughters of Grace Church. A plot of ground, consisting 
of five lots, was offered for a chapel by Mrs. H. Bisbee, 
fifteen subscriptions amounting to $172 pledged towards 
$500, proposed to be expended on the chapel, for which 
plans had been made. Ten or twelve baptisms and nearly 
as many confirmations testified to the faithful work of the 
priest in charge, who mini:tered to congregations of 
thirty-five or forty persons. Yet there came in the changes 
of this community, by fire and removals to other places, a 
serious question as to continuing the work, or making it 
permanent by building a chapel. At the end of two years 



224 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

only two or three families (and those very small) were 
left, who preferred the Episcopal services, and the "Chapel 
of Ease" was temporarily closed. The opportunity, how- 
ever, should have been better improved. 

A few years afterwards, the community of Springfield, 
which is still a part of Grace Church parish, was revived, 
large expenditures made in buildings and the purchase of 
lots, and other Christian missions have flourished where 
Grace Church should be represented in her work for the 
evangelization of her ancient inheritance, under her royal 
charters and State legislations. 

Grace Church Charitable Guild had long been estab- 
lished, and continued to receive regular support through 
envelope oflferings. Its object was to look after the poor 
of the parish, rendering them such assistance as should be 
needed. Many of the former contributors to this guild 
had changed residence, or had been removed by death, 
and their places not being filled by others, its funds became 
greatly reduced. 

Miss Phebe Hagner continued to be its treasurer, and 
made appeals for it through the Chimes, which were sec- 
onded by the rector. With some hesitation this most 
useful guild was suffered to lapse in its efficiency, as its 
object was co-ordinate with the purposes of the rector's 
fund. Few attended its annual meetings, and in later 
years its officers ceased to be elected annually. It was, 
however, left in such relations to the Church that its work 
could be at any time revived. 

The jubilee of the Church Charity Foundation was ap- 
proaching, and Grace Church, ever represented in this 
great charity, by most efficient members and officers, ca.me 
forward to take an active part in its celebration of fifty 



OF GRACE CHURCH 225 

years of widely extended work within the diocese of Long 
Island. 

To the proposed fund of $100,000, the members of the 
parish contributed more than $500, and in the great fete 
held for the same object in the Brooklyn Academy of 
Music had a prominent part with St. John's Church, in the 
English Garden, the idea of which originated in the sugges- 
tions of several ladies of the committee of Grace Church 
for the fete. Mrs. H. O. Ladd was president of this 
committee, Mrs. Wm. S. Cogswell, vice-president, and 
Mrs. Beverley Betts was chairman of the house committee. 
Associated in the several committees of Grace Church 
were Mrs. B. J. Brenton, Mrs. Detheridge, Mrs. P. Meynen, 
Mrs. Wayne, Mrs. Blondel, Mrs. Henry Van Allen, Mrs. 
John Denton and Mrs. A. J. Blanchard. 

At about the same time three events of great historical 
importance occupied the thoughts of the country, the 
church and the diocese. The first was the tragedy of 
President William McKinley's death, Sept. 14, 1901, and the 
universal mourning at the great funeral obsequies, in 
which every church took an individual part in its locality. 

Following this were the death. May 19, 1901, of the dis- 
tinguished Bishop of the diocese, Rt. Rev. Abraham N. 
Littlejohn, D. D., LL. D., and the election by the diocese 
Nov. 20, 1901, in the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden 
City, of the Rev. Frederick Burgess, D. D., rector of Grace 
Church, Brooklyn. In the early hours of the morning of 
the day of the convention, after sixteen hours of exciting 
(but apparently, until the last, ineffectual) balloting, the 
tired members of the Convention sang the Te Deum, and 
returned to their homes. 

Bishop Littlejohn, born Dec. 13, 1824, was consecrated 
Bishop of Long Island January, 1869, the first bishop of 



226 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

the diocese. During the thirty-two years of his continu- 
ance in the office of Bishop, the diocese increased from 
eighty-five to one hundred and fifty-four clergymen, with 
double the number of churches and fourfold the number 
of communicants. In the year of his death Bishop Little- 
john recorded the largest number of confirmations in the 
history of the diocese. He was one of the most distin- 
guished bishops in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the 
United States, both for his scholarship and intellectual 
ability. 

Bishop Littlejohn was widely known in the Anglican 
Communion in Europe. He received an honorary degree 
of Doctor of Laws from Cambridge when he delivered a 
course of theological lectures, and he was author of a 
number of volumes on religious themes. 

In the organization and establishment of the diocesan 
institutions he showed so great force and wisdom, as to 
leave a costly cathedral, three largely endowed schools for 
boys and girls, a renowned Charity Foundation, and or- 
ganizations which provided for the aged, the orphan, the 
blind and the crippled. The record of this life work as a 
Bishop only is so large as to make one forgetful that it 
was but little more than half of an energetic and busy life 
thus spent in the ministry of the Church. 

In the personal character of Bishop Littlejohn were com- 
bined dignity, severity, a strong will, a cold manner that 
yielded however to warmth and grace, and kindliness 
towards those who thus approached him, but frowned 
alike on those who opposed his wishes, or forfeited his 
confidence. 

His exalted position and office were thus limitations to 
his friendships. His virtues were those that secured the 



OF GRACE CHURCH 227 

permanency of his influence rather than the affection of 
his large acquaintance. His later years showed the tender- 
ness which really existed in his nature, but had been over- 
borne by the qualities that made him win respect and se- 
cure the eifectiveness and growth of his diocese. He left 
places in many spheres of Christian activity to be filled by 
his successor in the great office of the Church. 

During the rebuilding of the sanctuary and chancel of 
Grace Church, Bishop Littlejohn expressed to the rector 
a great desire to see their completion, which would be, as 
he said, a fulfillment of his long cherished hopes that this 
Church, so prominent in the diocese, might make its place 
of worship better adapted to the dignity of the great cele- 
brations of Holy Communion and the offices of the clergy 
and choir in that worship. He watched the progress of 
the improvements, and suggested to the committee the 
adoption of the passage behind the altar for the communi- 
cation of the clergy and choir. This had been otherwise 
urged upon their consideration. 



228 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



CHAPTER XXII. 

The Bi-Centenary Celebration — Church Activities — Wil- 
liam D. Wood, M. D. — John M. Crane's Death. 

The choice of Rev. Frederick Burgess, D. D., as Bishop, 
was happily reached under divine guidance, and, though 
it had been made unexpectedly and at a late hour in the 
Convention, it was at once favorably regarded as likely to 
be promotive of harmony and the progress of the Church 
in Long Island. Doctor Burgess had personal qualities 
which would satisfy earnest minds and inspire loyalty in 
those who should seek for counsel and help in their 
priestly duties and Christian life. His unaifected religious 
character, intelligent scholarship and courageous grasp of 
the faith and doctrines of the church were united with a 
kindliness of spirit and address which inspired friendship 
and respect. There was no doubt of the confirmation of 
this selection by all the dioceses, and arrangements were 
made for his consecration in Grace Church, Brooklyn. 

Grace Church was represented by the rector in this ser- 
vice as one of the committee of arrangements, the presid- 
ing Bishop being the Rt. Rev. Henry Codman Potter, D. 
D., LL. D., of New York. 

The consecration service and Bi-Centenary celebration 
of Grace Church, on April 9, 1902, was happily accom- 
plished, and the order of the services carried out without 
failure in any part. The succinct report of it in the Brook- 
lyn Daily Times, by Mr. F. E. Detheridge, to whose faith- 
ful and willing services Grace Church owed the preserva- 




The Right Rev. Frederick Burgess, D. D. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 229 

tion of much of her current history for this whole rector- 
ship, is here reproduced. 

'The new memorial sanctuary in Grace Church and the 
beautiful memorial appointments both in the sanctuary 
and chancel, including the altar, altar window, sanctuary 
cha..s, prayer desk, communion rail, pulpit, organ and 
reredos, were consecrated by Bishop Burgess yesterday. 
The historic parish has entered upon the third century of 
its existence, and in the evening a bi-centenary celebration 
was held. The afternoon was devoted to lunch and 
speeches in Colonial hall. Altogether the day adds a 
bright page to the history of the parish and it is one of 
which the rector may well be proud. 

'The consecration service was participated in by about 
thirty-five clergymen, from various parts of the diocese 
and from Manhattan, including Dean Cox, of the Cathe- 
dral; Archdeacons Bryan and Holden, and the Rev. George 
Williamson Smith, D. D., president of Trinity College, 
who was for many years rector of the parish. Those of 
the clergy who were to assist in the service took seats in 
the chancel, the others occupying reserved seats at the 
chancel end of the church. The pastors of the local' 
churches were guests of the occasion, and marched in the 
procession with the clergy. 

'The Bishop, having been formally received at the 
church door by the Wardens and Vestrymen, the proces- 
sion, preceded by the crucifer bearing the processional 
cross, moved up the aisle, the Bishop and clergy repeating 
responsively the 24th Psalm. The consecration service 
then proceeded. The instrument of donation was read by 
Warden W. S. Cogswell, and at the conclusion of the cere- 
monial the rector read the sentence of consecration, which 
is a formal certificate from the Bishop that the consecration 



230 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

has been performed. Following the consecration, led by 
the vested choir, under the direction of Frank E. Hopkins, 
organist and choirmaster, was sung the hymn, Tor all the 
Saints who from their labors rest.' 

'The Rev. Joshua Kimber, of Richmond Hill, read 
Morning Prayer. The first lesson was read by the Rev. 
Charles Belden, of Astoria, and the second by Rev. Robert 
Rogers of Brooklyn. Archdeacon Holden of Suffolk 
County read the Epistle, and the Gospel was read by Dean 
Cox. The Bishop read the Nicene Creed, which brought 
that portion of the service to an end. 

'The Rev. Dr. G. W. Smith delivered the sermon. He 
took for his text the I3th verse of Psalm 135, Thy name, 
O Lord, endureth forever, so doth thy memorial, O Lord, 
from generation to generation.' The morning service closed 
with Holy Communion. A collation followed the service at 
Colonial Hall presided over by the Bishop. At the conclu- 
sion of the meal there were more interesting addresses. The 
speakers were: the Rev. Henry D. Waller, of St. George's, 
Flushing, who talked of the Church in Colonial days; the 
Rev. Mr. Wick of the Jamaica Dutch Church, who greeted 
Grace Church on behalf of his own people, and bid the 
parish Godspeed; the Rev. Jere. Cook, of St. George's, 
Hempstead; the Rev. Dr. Smith, the Rev. H. O. Ladd, and 
Rev. W. P. Evans of Richmond Hill. 

'Tea was served in the hall to the visiting clergy and 
others before the evening services. Among the clergymen 
present were the Revs. Dr. Frederick Burgess and George 
Williamson Smith, and Samuel Cox, Cornelius Thwing, 
Edward M. McGuffey, Charles Belden, Jere. K. Cook, G. 
Wharton McMullen, William P. Evans, J. C. Welwood, 
G. W. Davenport, Robert Rogers, Henry P. Bryan, Kirk- 
land Huske, Frederick W. M. Burgess, F. H. Church, 



OF GRACE CHURCH 231 

Charles L. Newbold, Robert B. Kimber, Herbert J. Glover, 
William Holden, Isaac Peck, James H. Smith, Rockland 
T. Homans, Horatio O. Ladd, George C. Grover, W. H. 
Heigham, William E. Nies, Thomas Martin, F. S. Griffen, 
Henry D. Waller, Henry Mesier, Joshua Kimber, Frank 
W. Townley, William H. Weeks, Charles G. Clark, J. 
Clarence Jones, Ph. D., and the following pastors of 
Jamaica churches: Rev. Edwin Richmond, F. Schmitt, J. 
H. Hobbs, R. K. Wick, W. H. Phraner and Frederick 
Stoebner. 

'The bi-centenary celebration in the evening, the rector 
presiding, began with the processional, The Church's One 
Foundation, and the usual choral evening service was ren- 
dered supplemented with prayers appropriate to the 
occasion, 

''Bishop Burgess gave an address touching on memorials 
generally. He declared that the Church itself is a me- 
morial, and it teaches that memory must be exercised, that 
the good deeds of the dead might stimulate the living. 

"The Rev. Edward M. McGutfey, rector of St. James 
Church, Newtown, gave an address on the 'Ministers and 
Rectors of Grace Church.' He spoke of each one from the 
period when the Rev. John Bartow took charge of the 
parish, in 1702, down to the present time, giving some 
interesting particulars of many of them. He said in part: 

I have tried to give you a suggestion of each one of those who 
have served Grace Church in a ministerial capacity. Other men 
labored and ye are entered into their labors. We all owe an im- 
mense debt to the past. You of Grace Church worshipping in this 
beautiful and renewed church owe more than you can ever know to 
those faithful men, clerical and lay, who for 200 years labored to 
bring Grace Church to what it is today. You must make your 
contribution and pass on, unimpaired and strengthened, what you 



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232 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

have received Today the rectors of the daughter parishes of Fhish- 
ing and Newtown are here to greet you and wish you godspeed. 
To me, as the rector of Newtown, was assigned the honor of re- 
calling these memories of two centuries 

A study of our church's past impresses several things upon me. 
First, that times have changed vastly for the better, morally, socially 
and ecclesiastically. 

Second, that in spite of recent jeremiads over church attendance, 
never was there, on Long Island at least, more people going reg- 
ularly to church. 

Third, that people now give dollars for church support, where in 
early days they gave cents or nothing. 

Fourth, that the Long Island clergy are better treated than they 
used to be, and enjoying salaries not mainly made up of faith, hope 
and charity, plus criticism and fault-finding. 

Fifth, that the laity of Long Island have learned that the best way 
to make their clergy effective is to pay well, treat them well, and 
give them their friendship and co-operation. 

Sixth, that the old prejudice against the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, which lingered in some robustness of life until at least 
1850, has almost totally disappeared, and that the Church idea, 
which was so dear to Bishop Seabury and earlier rectors of Jamaica, 
is fast becoming the prevailing tone of Long Island religious senti- 
ment. 

Seventh, that the historic parishes of Jamaica, Newtown and 
Flushing are now abreast of any churches of New York in intelligent 
and effective pastoral administration in all things properly belonging 
to ritual and ecclesiology. 

The outlook is encouraging and inspiring. The despised church 
of Colonial life is fast becoming the healthy and dominant religious 
influence here in Queens County, making for righteousness and the 
Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

To my brother, the rector of Grace Church, to my friends the 
Wardens and Vestrymen of this historic parish, to my brethren the 
members of this dear old Colonial church, salutations, greetings 



OF GRACE CHURCH 233 

and best wishes from the rector, Wardens and Vestrymen as well 
as the congreg-ation of St. James Church, Newtown. Ad niultos 
annos. 

'The choir sang- at the offertory the chorus, 'Unfold Ye 
Portals Everlasting' from the Redemption by Gounod, and 
the service terminated with the recessional hymn, 'For all 
the Saints.' 

"The altar was decorated with flowers, and large congre- 
grations were present at each of the services. 

"Committee of Arrangements: Horatio Oliver Ladd, 
rector; William S. Cogswell, Warden; George K. Meynen, 
M. D., William D. Llewellyn, Vestrymen; Marshals, Rev. 
William P. Evans, Rev. George W. McMullen. 

Ladies of Committee on Reception at Colonial Hall: 
Mrs. W. S. Cogswell, Mrs. B. J. Brenton, Mrs. John S. 
Denton, Mrs. W. D. Llewellyn, Mrs. Charles Blondel, Mrs. 
H. C. Smith, Miss Kate Napier, Mrs. George K. Meynen, 
Mrs. A. J. Blanchard, Mrs. C. A. Belden, Mrs. Philip K. 
Meynen, Miss Eirene Ladd, Mrs. W. C. Baker, Mrs. B. R. 
Betts, Mrs. Henry A. Van Allen, Miss Phebe Hagner, Mrs. 
Martin \. Rapelyea, Mrs. James Lothian, Mrs. Frank B. 
Andreu, Mrs. George A. Hicks, Mrs. A. J. Wilkinson, Mrs. 
J. E. Stewart, Mrs. W. J. Ballard, Miss Kate Aymar. 

"Committee of Parish Social Guild for Chapel Recep- 
tion: Mrs. James Lothian, Mrs. Frederick Damon, Miss 
Pierce, Miss Damon, Mrs. Chickering, Robert B. Mitchell. 

"Ushers for the day: Charles E. Bissell, George E. Cogs- 
well, Frank D. Denton. 

"The Choir: Sopranos, Herbert Wood, Albert Weber, 
Alexander Fleury, Frank Muchmore, Walter Webb, Arthur 
White, Howard Wood, Harold Peto, Ray Dunham, Bert 



234 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Holmes, Fred Baker, Tracy Snediker, Douglas Holt, Lester 
Haight, George Brierly. Altos, Floyd Raynor, John 
Smyth. Tenors, Percy James, John M. Smyth, W. Down- 
ing. Basses, Charles C. Henderson, Asa Dunham. Cross 
Bearer, William Wood Smith. Organist and Choirmaster, 
Frank E. Hopkins. 

'The sermon in its eloquent exposition and appreciation 
of the theme soon rose to the elevation of this grand and 
inspiring service. It led the congregation to the specially 
memorial part which is here given. 

It is now two hundred years since the parish of Grace Church 
came into being, and here the venerable Society for the Propagation 
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts placed the first of the many lights it 
has kindled in all lands. It is a long time in the history of America, 
though a short time in the life of the Christian church, less than a 
moment with Him who endureth forever in heaven. Building has 
given place to building, but they sprang from each other in a con- 
tinuous life and development, for the real Church of God is in the 
hearts of his people (as our Lord said, "The Kingdom of God is 
within you"), and they have been only successive expressions of the 
same spirit of devotion. The old gives place to the new, which is 
yet not altogether new ; for it grows out of the old by the operation 
of the vital forces inherent in Christian faith. The old founda- 
tions serve for the new super-structure. 

When our forefathers came to this place the sounds of the Refor- 
mation were still in the air, and they feared the seductive influence 
of a sensuous worship and stately ceremonial because they were 
associated with the corruption in life and doctrine which they were 
still vigorously combating. 

It was important at that time that the worship of Protestant 
Christianity be severe and simple in its forms. When Grace Church 
was organized it was not fifteen years since England was all aflame 
to drive James the Second from the throne, from fear that he aimed 
to restore the Papal supremacy. Many good people regarded any 
form of prayer, and retention of historic ceremonies, as dangerous. 
The pressure of the Puritan, the extreme Protestant, was strong 
and the conflict between the stubborn convictions of the churchmen 



OF GRACE CHURCH 235 

and the aggressions of the standing order of New England, modified 
the workings of both in this battle ground of opposing forces of 
Protestant Christianity The churchmen moving east from New 
York, and the Congregationalist coming west from the Connecticut 
colonies on the north shore of Long Island, battled here for 
supremacy. Religion was intensely theological. The sermon claimed 
chief place — so it should always, I think — but in Grace Church 
its chief function was to buttress the prayer book. It was apolo- 
getic and dealt chiefly with the distinctive doctrines of the English 
Church; but now it is mostly for edification in the larger religious 
life, and seldom lays chief stress upon the distinctive claims of the 
church ; for they are regarded as having a lawful place in Christian 
forensics. 

To us the sermons from 1700 to iSoo are dreary reading, for 
the questions they dealt with have been settled, or at least quieted. 
To those men, the sermons of today would be insignificant or un- 
intelligible for the questions which agitate us today were not yet 
mooted. Yet they did their work in the hearts and souls of men 
for the preservation and upbuilding of the Kingdom of God, and we 
have entered into their labors. Our Church life in its richness of 
worship and fullness of activity is largely possible only because of 
the dying out of conflicts in the apparent stagnation of Church life 
in the eighteenth century. That phase would have had no use 
for the extensions of this building, or the facilities now provided 
for a richer and more ornate worship. 

A life of greater culture calls for an aesthetic advance in the 
appointments of the Church, and a more ornate interpretation of the 
rubrics in worship. The Sunday School is now universal in Amer- 
ica. Christianity, or Christian life has passed largely from the 
theological to the philanthropic phase. In a generation which 
strives to belittle the Bible and the Creeds, the Church as in many 
other epochs of her history, has instinctively stepped forth with 
the resistless power of divine charity and draws to her. by all the 
cords of a man those who might deride or refuse to listen to her 
doctrines. Her work has broadened. It is more social in all its 
efforts and objects. Men will learn of the doctrine by doing God's 
will. The clergy, instead of standing apart from the people in the 
isolation of Greek and Hebrew dead languages are associated with 
them, heart and hand, in the common work of ameliorating evils and 



236 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

extending blessing to the ignorant and indigent, and in all phases 
of what is known as parish work. 

In this expansion of Church life the sanctuary cannot contain all 
the conveniences which are called for, and so becomes the center 
around which must be clustered, like the chambers built around the 
walls in Jerusalem, many structures for the service of God. And 
just as to meet the simpler needs of former days those who inherited 
their Christian names and faith from previous generations rose up 
in the spirit of devotion and gave and labored for new buildings 
when needed, so has that spirit prompted the extension and beauti- 
fying of the place where God's honor dwells in this our day. 

An old parish like this is an eloquent witness of God's truth and 
mercy from generation to generation. In some cases we find the 
same names among benefactors of the parish from first to last. Each 
has left some association, some token of tenderness and affection, 
some name on the saintly roll. At some point new names are in- 
corporated in the continuous life of the parish and fill the gaps 
left by the departed. The old love and veneration for the sacred 
spot which is hallowed by the graves of former generations, appeals 
eflFectively to many whose homes are distant, but who value their 
inheritance to the Church of their fathers. Hither, during the last 
two hundred years, many have been brought from the ends of the 
earth, to rest beside the ashes of their kindred till the resurrection 
morn, and in many instances inherited affection strengthens the 
personal tie. 

The trials of the parish for twenty years after the Revolution were 
most severe. The Church was discredited as the representative of 
a foreign and hostile State. The stipend from the Venerable So- 
ciety was withdrawn, the contributions from the English garrison 
which had been stationed here during the war ceased, and the native 
churchmen were impoverished. At that dark hour, when existence 
itself seemed precarious, a strong hand brought salvation. Rufus 
King, one of our most eminent statesmen, one of the creators of 
the nation, selected Jamaica for his country home, and mightily re- 
inforced the struggling parish. His distinguished public services, 
his high character and ample means, transformed the scene, and the 
dying church took a long breath. By his accession much of the 
reproach due to English affiliations was removed, and the dis- 
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showed a deep concern for the welfare, usefuhiess and character of 
the Church, and in a few years secured from Trinity Church, New 
York, of which he was a Warden, a landed endowment which has 
been a sure foundation to the present day. He was also one of the 
two largest individual contributors to the fund for erecting a new 
building when the old was worn out. and secured a fifth of its 
cost from that nursing mother of all the churches, Trinity, New 
York. His substantial interest in the parish was unwearied until 
his death in 1827. 

There are among you those who remember his distinguished son, 
who emulated him in his work and labor of love when the present 
brown stone building was erected. In zeal and devotion, in services 
and gifts, he was behind none who were associated with him in the 
enterprise, and who were fit fellow-workers for the common object 
of their piety. 

And in the third generation many of his children and family 
were associated with you in gifts and personal service. One of 
them I am sure you remember especially. She was a saintly woman, 
who, with tireless activity for almost a lifetime, went in and out 
among you, herself still a resident when the family was scattered, 
the embodiment of the new era in the work the Church was arous- 
ing itself to do, admired, remembered and loved by all, and who 
extended the influence of the parish throughout the new diocese 
with an energy in well doing that has never subsided. Miss 
Cornelia King. Her memory is still precious, and in many hearts 
is like a benediction. This is a conspicuous example of what many 
families have been doing these two hundred years. Those gen- 
erations we may speak of, for they are passed away ; but their 
memorial is linked with Thy memorial, O Lord, which endureth 
from generation to generation. 

No history would be complete were not reference made to the 
many memorials and gifts which beautify and adorn this loved fane 
of worship. Some of those go back to the foundations of the 
parish, and others are now for the first time put to sacred uses. 
Some of the gifts have been large, some small, but all alike testify 
to the devotion of those who, now worshipping no more in the 
earthly courts of the church militant, are remembered where praise 
and prayer have never ceased for more than two centuries, and 
where may God grant it may continue from generation to genera- 
tion. 



238 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

But it is more difficult at this point to write the record, for you 
are here and know the struggles of both the past and present. Yet 
this may be said : The work which is completed and offered to God 
today with its many loving gifts and beautiful tokens of the com- 
munion of saints, tells us how truly the spirit of tenderness and 
affection for the sacred fane which is God's memorial, and protects 
the hallowed graves of many still remembered, and more whose 
names have passed from human annals, but are written in the book 
of God's remembrance — survives and awakens to generous action 
with much self-denial and many sacrifices, when new times and 
new needs call for a helping hand. 

And there is not lacking in this fourth generation, one to come 
with ready aid to supplement your gifts and ask the privilege of 
joining with you, although her home is elsewhere, to enable the 
Church of her love to meet its needs. As is fitting, her work is in 
memory of beloved parents. A noble Christian gentleman was 
John A. King, whose connection with the Church in which he was 
brought up, and which was that of his affection, is thus perpetuated. 
He took large part in the work of the diocese and of the general 
Church. Although in a position to please himself in all things, he 
was indefatigable in missionary, educational, and philanthropic 
enterprises, to which he contributed regularly as part of his living 
expenses. A detailed account of his many activities in the church 
would put him in the forefront of the honored laymen who are the 
strength of our ecclesiastical organization. 

We may not say more, save the gifts of this day have their 
parallel again and again in the history of this Church and in the 
families which compose it. Side by side in the associations of 
loving memory the stone cries out of the wall and the beam from 
the timber answers it. Other churches richer in money and power 
in saintly memorials may well envy this little church. 

"Thy memorial, O Lord, endureth from generation to genera- 
tion." It is not for a day, nor for an age, nor for all time, even. 
These stones shall crumble to dust, and they who reared them shall 
pass away and leave no trace on earth ; but there are silent voices in 
the far-off land which utter knowledge though there be neither 
speech nor language. When the seer, St. John the Divine, saw in 
the last days the Holy City, whose glory on earth was the memorial 
of God and Moriah, there was no temple therein, for the Lord God 



OF GRACE CHURCH 239 

Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. The memorial had 
done its work and was become the spiritual house in the hearts and 
souls of the saints. Then was the text fulfilled. The natural had 
passed into the spiritual. The Eternal God was the memorial of 
Himself and those who had served Him for ever and ever. 



CHURCH ACTIVITIES. 

Over the consecration services the three memorial win- 
dows behind the altar for the first time shed their radiance, 
revealing in it the command of the Lord Christ, "Go teach 
all Nations," and thus reminding the worshippers of the 
origin and motive of Grace Church in the ministry of the 
great Missionary Society that had founded it. In the glory 
of this window the most devotional can appreciate the 
spiritual expression of the features of our Lord and His 
Apostles. The coloring avoids extreme eflfects and indi- 
vidualizes the Apostles while it glorifies the central figure 
of our Lord. Their postures have, without losing natural- 
ness and dignity, overcome most effectively the difficulties 
arising from limited space for so many figures. The light 
from the architectural tracery which surmounts the pic- 
tures adds to the perspective of the landscape, and brings 
into distinctness the richer shades in the vestments. In 
the principal figures no better introduction could have been 
made to a series of scriptural scenes in the other church 
windows, which will perpetuate the influence of this beau- 
tiful memorial gift. 

The uses of the enlarged and beautified sanctuary fully 
justified the sacrifices made for its erection. The attend- 
ance at the Holy Communion, and at other offices of wor- 
ship was increased, the choral evensong was made one of 
the most attractive of the Sunday services by the aid of the 
new organ, and on special occasions the rendering of 



240 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

cantatas and oratorios and celebrated masses, or musical 
compositions of the churches of Europe had never before 
been equalled in Jamaica. The eighth anniversary of the 
organization of Grace Church choir was celebrated on the 
evening of Ascension Day, May 8, 1902. Six of the 
original leading voices took part in it. 

The Parish Sunday School Guild increased to a member- 
ship of ninety-two. It held open meetings through the 
winter, giving elaborate and instructive entertainments of 
tableaux illustrating the peoples, customs and history of 
America and European nations. The other guilds also 
united in giving such exhibitions in the Chapel for chari- 
table objects. The St. Cornelia Guild had a membership 
of forty-five, and the Daughters of the King, the Junior 
Daughters and the Kings Daughters were similarly 
strengthened in numbers and efficiency. 

The missionary activities of the Parish were forwarded 
with new zest. The efforts to build St. Stephen's Chapel 
for the colored work were aided by the Vestry, who do- 
nated the oak altar and altar furniture of the former 
sanctuary of Grace Church and the gas fixtures. The altar 
guild gave altar vestments and linen, and the congregation 
contributed $25o to the building expenses. The chapel 
was erected on the property of the Archdeaconry of 
Queens and Nassau, that had been procured by the rector 
for this mission, on the corner of Grand and North First 
Streets, Jamaica. It was under the charge of Rev. H. S. 
McDuffy, the energetic superintendent of colored missions 
in this archdeaconry. 

In October, 1902, Mr. J. B. French was appointed super- 
intendent of the Sunday School of Grace Church, and held 
this office during the remainder of this rectorship, giving 
a painstaking and devoted service to the Sunday School, 



OF GRACE CHURCH 241 

which grew in numbers and interest, and efficiency in the 
instruction of the youth of the congregation. There was 
such variety and common sense in his methods that 
teachers and scholars responded with respect and interest 
to his efforts. The baptisms and confirmations of mem- 
bers of the school showed the churchly character of the 
education they received, and the sincere piety of those 
who undertook with superintendent and rector this labor 
of love. 

WILLIAM D. WOOD, M. D. 

The death of Doctor William D. Wood, Oct. 7, 1903, 
reminded the older members of the parish of the virtues of 
his long and useful life in this community. He completed 
all the years allotted to man in his strength, yet at the age 
of eighty-two, and during illness which he could not resist, 
he still desired to live and do good. He was a faithful and 
affectionate husband and father, an honorable and liberal 
citizen, and an assiduous, considerate and charitable phy- 
sician, successful in the skill and judgment which he had 
acquired in over fifty years of practise in Jamaica and 
vicinity. 

His life as a Christian and churchman was exemplary in 
the highest degree. He did not neglect his duties to the 
Church and her ordinances because of the duties or dis- 
tractions of his profession. Doctor Wood was a constant 
and zealous attendant at both Sunday services of the 
Church, continuing such till his last sickness, which began 
in the middle of August, made it impossible for him to 
leave his home. He was a liberal supporter of the Church 
and her benevolences. His memorial there is the stately 
processional cross, borne before the choir, to whose ser- 
vices he ever gave generous aid. 



242 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

As Vestryman he welcomed the members of the Vestry 
in later years to his home, and encouraged them and the 
rector in their progressive measures for the enlargement 
and beautifying of Grace Church and a consistent admin- 
istration of its affairs. 

As a friend, to his companions, he was genial and true 
hearted, to the poor and suffering he never spared himself 
in order to relieve their pain, or to console them in their 
sorrows and loneliness. 

To this rector Doctor Wood was ever helpful and sym- 
pathetic, encouraging by word and deed, and always 
staunchly adhering to the traditions and to the faith and 
Church in which he was born, baptized and confirmed, be- 
ing true to his English parentage. He served the Lord 
Christ to the last in ministering to those who were hungry, 
thirsty, sick and in prison. 

In the fall of 1902 a window was presented to the 
Wardens and Vestry of Grace Church, made by the firm 
of J. and R. Lamb of New York. Its subject was St. Paul, 
and its stands on the east side of the church building, next 
to the St. Cecelia window, memorial of Mrs. Clement E. 
Gardiner. It was given as a memorial of Hon. Richard 
McCormick, by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Thurman 
McCormick, 

He was Governor of Arizona in 1866-68, and for two 
terms represented the First Congressional District of New 
York in the National House of Representatives. Having 
long been a resident of Jamaica, and a member of the 
parish of Grace Church, though not a communicant, he 
was accorded a burial in the churchyard and a memorial 
in the church. He was a distinguished citizen, an influ- 
ential Congressman and as President of the Long Island 



OF GRACE CHURCH 243 

State Normal School Board of Trustees he gave to that 
institution an efficient administration of its aflfairs. A 
man of genial character, learning and good judgment of 
men and affairs, he had many staunch friends. A large 
number of these, some of them officials and statesmen of 
high position, testified to their esteem and honor by their 
presence in the services at his residence and in the church- 
yard. 

In the Autumn of 1902 the rector had a long illness, 
which for four months prevented him from performing his 
duties. The Vestry supplied the church by the ministry 
of other clergymen, and addressed to the rector the follow- 
ing note of date Sept. 30, 1903: 

"We hereby express to our beloved Rector our deepest 
sympathy in the time of his enforced retirement because 
of severe and painful illness, with the earnest hope that he 
may be speedily restored to his usual health and permitted 
to resume the duties of his sacred office. 

JOHN M. CRANE, Committee." 

Rev. W. H. Heigham took charge of the services during 
this absence. 

The Christmas celebrations by the choir and the Sunday 
School became special features of the work of the Church. 
In the Sunday School the manger service was inaugurated 
and the manger offerings given to the Church Charity 
Foundation. The Advent offerings for the Archdeaconry 
of Queens and Nassau, were liberally increased each year. 
The most active workers in the parish were found in the 
Sunday School and guilds, more than one hundred and 
fifty in all of them, most of whom vigorously and faith- 
fully fulfilled their assigned duties of membership. Among 



244 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

these, Mrs. B. J. Brenton, Mrs. H. S. Church, Mrs. F. T. 
Martin, Miss Hester Boyd, Miss Alice C. Mayer, Miss 
Isabel Jackson, Miss Bedell, Mrs. J. B. French, Miss 
Aymar, the Misses Simonson, Mrs. Blanchard, Mrs. W. C. 
Baker, Miss Elizabeth Brenton, Mrs. Andreu, Mrs. Lothian, 
Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Hoffman, Miss Virginia Cogswell, Miss 
Pauline Cogswell, Mr. R. B. Mitchell, Misses Oborne, Miss 
Irma Port, Miss Leavenworth, Mrs. Charles Blondel, Miss 
Cornelias, Miss Eirene Ladd, Mr. Charles Blondel, were 
each successful directors of these activities in the guilds for 
young and older members and in the teaching of the 
Sunday School. 

In 1902 Mr. L. C. Buckbee ended a service of thirty 
years as sexton of the church, and was succeeded by S. S. 
Aymar, who remained during this rectorship. Mr. Buck- 
bee continued to have charge of the churchyard several 
years longer, until followed by Mr. John L. Boyd. 

In 1904 the Parish Guild gave a public entertainment 
and reception in the large assembly room of the State 
Normal School. It consisted of a concert by the choir and 
a play, and the proceeds were added to the fund for the 
purchase of a piano. 

The Archdeaconry of Queens held a great missionary 
meeting continuing the whole day, in Grace Church, Jan. 
27, 1904. Addresses were made by Bishop Burgess, 
Bishop Wells of the diocese of Spokane and Bishop J. J. 
P. Perry of the diocese of Georgia. Archdeacon Bryan, 
whose missionary activities and efficiency will ever be re- 
membered on Long Island, wrote of this meeting, "The 
hospitality, the large attendance and the beautiful services 
all go to mark the occasion, the day and the place as a red 
letter day in the history of the Archdeaconry." 



OF GRACE CHURCH 245 

In this year the portrait of Rev. Thomas Colgan, which 
was missing from all the collections made of these Colonial 
churches, came to light, and as described in the account of 
Mr. Colgan's rectorship, was donated to Grace Church by 
Mrs. Mary S. G. Mills of Connecticut. 

Mrs. Catherine Herriman Codwise, one of the two oldest 
members of Grace Church, died January 30, 1904, at the 
age of 87. She was vigorous to the last in her faculties. 
Though her age carried her far beyond two generations, 
she maintained a lively interest in the friends who clung 
to her and visited her, of the old families of Jamaica, 
of which she was a prominent representative. She desired 
to know all the events in the church, parish and town, and 
remembered clearly the former rectors, even before Doctor 
Johnson, by whom she was married Sept. 15, 1856. ,A 
constant friend of the Sunday School and always ready to 
contribute privately to its needs, she was also a constant 
attendant on the services of Grace Church to the last few 
months of her life. Her vigor was such that she survived 
all her immediate relatives, and the breaking up of her 
lifelong home was an interesting event to the community, 
from the collection of relics which were disposed of at pub- 
lic sale. In later years she retired from the active life of 
the parish, but her tall and erect form and cheerful con- 
versation are ever associated in the memories of the older 
people, with the home that now has been transformed to 
a lively business center in modern Jamaica. 

The Boys' Club of Grace Church under Miss Mayer's 
direction, aided by others, was conducted for several 
years with great vigor. From time to time it was discon- 
tinued. Several efforts were made to establish a Men's 
Club, a Young Men's Club and a Chapter of the St. An- 
drew's Brotherhood, but none of these endeavors met with 



246 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

any permanent success. During the year 1904 the visit 
of the Archbishop of Canterbury led to the hope of a 
reunion of the eight parishes and missions that have been 
connected with Grace Church, as part of its work in the 
limits of the original parish of Jamaica. The effort failed 
from the inability of the Archbishop, who is the head of 
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to take all 
the services offered to him in New York. 

The years 1903-1904 were the most prosperous in this 
rectorship, in the activities of the members of the parish 
and the attendance at the church services. The efforts 
were renewed to build the Grace Memorial Parish House, 
which had been kept in many ways before the minds of the 
people. It was proposed that rooms should be named as 
memorials of departed friends and citizens, and that 
memorial tablets placed in the front hall should contain 
such names as the donors desired to perpetuate in the his- 
tory of Grace Church and the Memorial House. 

The Chimes made frequent reference to the project, and 
the articles before published were repeated in different 
issues of this Church paper. It was discussed in the Parish 
Guild meetings, in the Sunday School, and advocated in 
the Vestry. 

JOHN M. CRANE'S DEATH. 

The death of John M. Crane, Esq., at the end of the year 
1904, made the parish sensible of a great loss to its activi- 
ties and standing in the community. Mr. Crane passed 
away Dec. 30th, and his funeral services were held in 
Grace Church on the afternoon of Sunday, January 1. 
Rev. George Williamson Smith, D. D., assisted the rector 
in the conduct of the services, which were attended largely 



OF GRACE CHURCH 247 

by his business associates, the members of the Janiaica 
Club, the Sunday School of Grace Church, and others of 
the citizens of Jamaica who completely filled the church. 
The whole service was a sincere expression of the respect 
and love which Mr. Crane had won and inspired in the 
town of his birth, childhood, and mature life. Since 1873 
he had been a Vestryman, and since 1884 a Warden of 
Grace Church, holding also the offices of clerk and treas- 
urer and repeatedly a delegate to the Diocesan Convention. 

He was eminently a liberal supporter of the Church and 
a constant attendant and liberal contributor, till prevented 
by a severe confining illness for three years before his 
death. Even then he was often present at the services 
and at Vestry meetings, and he expressed deep interest in 
the enlargement and improvement of Grace Church, espe- 
cially in the gift of the large organ in memory of his wife. 

A faithful friend of the young, he desired that they 
should be attracted to the Church and love her worship. 
He expressed great anxiety for the building of the Me- 
morial Parish House, to which he made the first large 
subscription of $1,000. 

Mr. Crane was, from a boy, connected with the National 
Shoe and Leather Bank, New York City, gradually rising 
through various positions to become head of that institu- 
tion, which oftlce he held for nearly twenty-five of the 
fifty-two years he was in its service. 

He was brought up religiously by his father. Rev. Elias 
Crane, who was a loved pastor of the Presbyterian Church 
of Jamaica. Soon after his marriage he associated himself 
with Grace Church, and was with his wife there confirmed. 
Mr. Crane was a citizen of whom Jamaica was proud, for 
with simple tastes and in unostentatious ways he was a 



248 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

friend to all who sought him for advice and help, and 
respected by all who served him. A liberal and yet a just 
man, a progressive citizen, a staunch churchman, an 
eifective speaker on public aflfairs, a loyal Republican, a 
genial host, a faithful and affectionate friend and a devoted 
husband and father; into all the relations of life he carried 
a kindly spirit and an honest and manly character. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 249 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

Church Finances — Rector Emeritus. 

While the endowment of the Church was thus increasing 
during this rectorship and also, as the record shows, by 
many bequests, the many necessary expenses were not 
adequately met by the usual offerings and pew-rents. 
Again and again the adoption of the envelope plan was 
urged by the rector on the Vestry. There was once or 
twice an indifferent consent to it, and measures taken to 
bring it before the congregation. Printed envelopes were 
procured and presented, but few responded. The year 
1908 the changes in the Vestry were such that the plan 
was adopted by resolution and referred to a committee of 
one Warden and two Vestrymen to carry it out. The 
committee delayed action and refused to complete the 
arrangement for which they were appointed, and the in- 
complete support of the Church with increasing indebted- 
ness was permitted to continue till the close of this rector- 
ship. 

On Feb. 21, 1907, Miss Elizabeth Brenton, after a 
lingering sickness, passed away to her eternal home. Her 
life had been spent from childhood in Jamaica and in the 
home of her brother, Benjamin J. Brenton. Miss Brenton 
was related in many ways to the educational, charitable, 
social and religious movements of the community. She 
was an earnest promoter of all these interests; a thought- 
ful and well-informed woman, an interesting writer and 
speaker, she exerted influence in larger circles than those 



250 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

of her own town, and was a valued member and officer of 
the Press Club of New York City, and of the Sunshine 
Society, in whose work she continued active till her last 
sickness. Her personal interest in the Altar Guild of 
Grace Church, in which from its formation she had been 
the secretary, greatly helped to the efficiency of the Guild 
in beautifying the Church services. Many friends testified 
to their appreciation of her lovable qualities and to their 
alTection for her. Her regular attendance at Church, her 
consistent character as a Christian, her intelligent and 
diffusive piety, made her an invaluable assistant to her 
rector. She saw clearly the deep and spiritual reasons for 
her faith and service, and urged these on the Church mem- 
bership in her graceful reports of the Altar Guild work. 
She is of blessed memory in Grace Church. 

The Vestry finally gave approval of the effort to get 
subscriptions for the Parish House and to the building, if 
it could be erected. Conditional subscriptions by John 
M. Crane, Esq., for $1,000, Mrs. S. S. Stocking, Dr. Geo. 
K. Meynen, P. K. Meynen for $500 each, and Mrs. S. E. 
Jackson for $1,000 were the first to be made after the one 
already given and paid by Miss Elizabeth McFarland for 
$200, which was the first offering to this worthy object. 
The Sunday School raised $80 by collections, and the 
amount of all the gifts promised or paid was $4,300 before 
the rector resigned. The effort had been defeated by the 
unwillingness of the Vestry to give it authority by using 
the parish funds or credit to undertake the building, 

(The history of its actual achievement belongs to the 
rectorship of Rev. Rockland Tyng Homans, under whose 
energetic action aided by changes in the parish and vestry, 
the great work was accomplished, which stands to the 
honor of the rector and parish in the years 1912 and 1913. 




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Grace Memorial House, 1913. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 251 

The general financial condition of the Parish had vastly 
improved during the years of 1908 and 1909. The sale 
of the valuable lot in Trinity Place, New York, for which 
negotiations proceeded for two years was accomplished. 
Nearly $40,000 was thus added to the available funds of 
the Parish. The equity held by Grace Church in the 
Reade Street property, New York, was later on added to 
the endowment funds, under Mr. Homans' rectorship, and 
other sums gathered of large amount to endow the church- 
yard for its care and improvement.) 

The burdens of seventy years of life had been carried by 
the rector, and in 1909 he offered either to resign his 
rectorship and to be retired as rector emeritus, or asked for 
the services of a curate or assistant, to meet the increasing 
demands of a widely extended parish, and its rapidly de- 
veloping population in the center of the Borough of 
Queens. 

After two years of deliberation the following action was 
taken by the Vestry: 

''Grace Church, Jamaica, 
Oct. 12, 1909. 

'in accordance with the suggestion contained in a com- 
munication submitted by the Rector, of this date, it was 
regularly moved by Mr. Brenton and duly seconded, that 
the Rev. Horatio Oliver Ladd be elected rector emeritus 
at an annual salary of $1,200, payable monthly, to take 
effect Dec. 1, 1909. Motion was put by Warden Cogs- 
well and carried. 



252 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

"Jamaica, Oct. 12, 1909." 
'To the Wardens and Vestrymen of Grace Church. 
Gentlemen: 

In accord with my communication of same date, having 
been duly elected by you Rector Emeritus from Dec. 1, 
1909, I hereby resign as Rector of the church, to take effect 
on that day. 

Respectfully yours, 

HORATIO OLIVER LADD." 

"On motion of Mr. Brenton it was resolved that the 
resignation of Doctor Ladd as Rector be accepted, to take 
effect December 1st, 1909. 

GILBERT B. SAYRES, 
Clerk of the Vestry." 

At a regular meeting of the Vestry of Grace Church, 
Jamaica, N. Y., held Oct. 26, 1909, the following resolu- 
tion was unanimously adopted: 

"Resolved: Whereas, the Reverend Doctor Horatio 
Oliver Ladd has resigned his position as Rector of this 
Parish, which place he has held for nearly fourteen years, 
we think it fitting to place on record our appreciation of 
his high character as a gentleman and a Christian, and to 
give testimony to his excellent literary attainments. His 
benevolence toward the poor, his sympathetic ministra- 
tions to the sick and distressed, will long hold him in 
affectionate remembrance. He leaves us with the best 
wishes for his welfare and our sincere hope for his happi- 
ness and success in whatever field he may select for the 
future. GILBERT B. SAYRES, 

Clerk of the Vestry." 

The rector closed his services to the church on Dec. 1, 
1909, and went abroad with his family for a season of 



OF GRACE CHURCH 253 

two years, in which he ministered as a licensed priest of 
the Anglican Church in churches in England, and as a 
Chaplain of the Society for the Promotion of the Gospel, 
in Bologna, Italy. 

He returned to take up his residence in Richmond Hill, 
New York, where his wife, Harriett Vaughan Abbott Ladd, 
passed away May 12, 1913, in her 75th year, to her eternal 
home. She was survived by her husband, four children, 
Lillian Ladd Church, Julia Eirene Ladd, H. Abbott Ladd, 
and Maynard Ladd, M. D., of Boston; and four grand- 
children, Oliver Alden and Elizabeth Church, Gabriella M. 
and Vernon Abbott Ladd. 

In July, 1909, there was published in the Chimes a list 
of the communicants and confirmed persons in Grace 
Parish, of which the rector said, ''It has been carefully 
gathered and often revised, yet it is probably neither 
accurate nor complete, and the rector asks for corrections 
in names, addresses and spelling. There should be fifty 
more names to correspond to the report to the Diocesan 
Convention at Easter, 1909. But many have now moved 
away without giving any notice whatever, and in most 
cases these persons are beyond the rector's knowledge. Of 
the nearly four hundred names here given nearly all have 
been personally known to the rector as communicants. It 
is ten years since the rector published a similar list, none 
having been in existence when he came into the parish 
thirteen years ago." 

The removal of the rector from Jamaica in the December 
following this publication of 1909, prevented its further 
revisal and completion. It is given as a valuable historical 
record, so far as it goes, some changes in spelling or 
address being needed to be perfectly accurate, but it is a 



254 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

measure of the strengthening of the Church since this 
rectorship began in 1896. 

A similar list of the members of the Parish was made 
at the same time, and revised to May 26, 1909. It con- 
tained 275 families and heads of families, with street 
addresses, and the names and numbers of individual mem- 
bers of these families. The total is 1034 persons of all 
ages. 

There were registered during this rectorship of nearly 
fourteen years 282 baptisms, 177 confirmations, 113 
marriages, and 358 deaths and interments. There were 
68 received from other churches by letter. 

The Vestry of Grace Church, with sense of the im- 
portance of providing for an energetic and wise use of 
the enlarged opportunities and funds of the Church, made 
a temporary arrangement, Dec. 1, 1909, with the Rev. 
Arthur Sloan of Richmond Hill, to minister in the place of 
a rector. Mr. Sloan had recently resigned the chaplaincy 
of the Sailors' Snug Harbor, of Staten Island, New York, 
which he had held for seventeen years. He had previously 
been rector of the Church of the Resurrection at Richmond 
Hill for a year and a half, and had returned with his family 
on his retirement from the chaplaincy to take up his resi- 
dence there. He conducted the services of Grace Church 
with such ability and good judgment that he was con- 
tinued in charge of the Chapel at Dunton in the parish 
after the election, March 15, 1910, of the Rev. Rockland 
Tyng Homans, assistant minister of the Church of the 
Incarnation in New York, to the rectorship of Grace 
Church, who began his ministry May 1, 1910. Rev. Mr. 
Sloan died suddenly about a year after this in Richmond 
Hill (during the night of Oct. 2, 1911), having the same 
evening made an impressive address to the Men's Club 
of Grace Church, on the ending of life. 




Rev. Rockland Tyng Homans. 



VI 

THE CHARTER OF GRACE 

CHURCH. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 257 



CHARTER FOR GRACE CHURCH AT JAMAICA, IN 
QUEENS COUNTY ON NASSAU ISLAND. 

GEORGE the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain, 
France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith and so forth, to 
ALL to whom these presents shall come Greeting; Whereas our 
loving subjects Samuel Seabury junior, the present Rector of the 
parish of Jamaica, Robert Howel, Benjamin Carpenter, John 
Hutchins, John Smith, Jacob Ogden, Joseph Olfield, Joseph Olfield 
junior, John Troup, John Comts, Gilbert Cowes, Thomas Truxtum, 
Thomas Braint, Benjamin Whitehead, Samuel Smith, William 
Sherlock, John Tunes, Richard Betts, Isaac Vanhoef, Thomas 
Lointhman, Adam Lawrence, inhabitants of the said parish and 
township of Jamaica in Queens County in communion of the 
Church of England as by law established, by their humble petition 
presented to our trusty and well beloved Cadwallader Golden 
Esquire, president of our Council and Commander in chief of our 
Province of New York and the territories depending thereon in 
America in council on the 27th day of May last past did set forth 
that the inhabitants of the said township of Jamaica in communion 
of the Church of England as by law established had by voluntary 
contributions erected and finished a decent and convenient church 
in the said township of Jamaica for the celebration of divine service 
according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England: 
But that from a want of some persons legally authorized to super- 
intend the same and manage the affairs and interests thereof the 
said church was greatly delayed and the petitioners discouraged 
from contributing to the repairs thereof least the monies given for 
that pwrpose might be misapplied and that on that account also 
charitable and well disposed people were discouraged in their de- 
sign to establish proper funds for the future support of the said 
church and the better maintenance of its ministry. The petitioners 
therefore humbly prayed our Royal Charter incorporating such 
persons with such rights, privileges and immunities as should ap- 
pear proper and expedient to answer the purposes aforesaid. 
Which petition having been then and there read and considered of 
our said Council did afterwards on the same day humbly advise our 



258 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

said President to grant the prayer thereof. Whereof we being will- 
ing to give all due encouragement to the pious intentions of our said 
subjects and to grant this their reasonable request KNOW YE 
that we of our especial grace and certain knowledge and meer mo- 
tion have made, ordained, constituted, granted and declared, and 
by these presents for us, our heirs and successors do make, ordain, 
constitute, grant and declare that the said petitioners and the rest 
of the inhabitants of said Parish and Township of Jamaica in com- 
munion of the Church of England as by law established be and 
their successors the Rector and inhabitants of the said Parish and 
Township of Jamaica in communion as aforesaid for the time being, 
for from time to time, and at all times for ever hereafter, a body 
corporate and politic in deed, fact and name, by the name and stile 
of the Rector and inhabitants of the Parish and Township of 
Jamaica in Queens County in communion of the Church of England 
as by law established, and they and their successors the Rector and 
inhabitants of the said Parish and Township of Jamaica in com- 
munion of the Church of England as by law established one body 
politic and corporate in deed, fact and name, really and fully, we 
do for us, our heirs and successors order, make, constitute, declare 
and create by these presents, and that by the same name they and 
their successors the Rector and inhabitants of the said Parish and 
Township of Jamaica in communion of the Church of England as 
by law established for the time being shall and may have perpetual 
succession and shall and may be responsible and capable in the law 
to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, to answer and be 
answered unto, to defend and be defended, in all courts and else- 
where in all and singular suits, causes, quarrels, matters, actions 
demands and things of what nature or kind soever. And also that 
they their successors by the same name be and shall be for ever 
hereafter capable and able in the law to take, accept and acquire, 
purchase, receive, have, hold and enjoy in fee for ever, for life 
or lives, or for years, or in any other manner any messuages, build- 
ings, houses, lands, tenements, hereditaments and real estate, and 
the same to lease, or demise for one or more years to grant, alien, 
bargain, sell and dispose of, for life or lives, or for ever, under cer- 
tain yearly rents : And also to accept of, take, possess, and purchase 
any goods, chattels or personal estate and the same to hire, let, sell 
or dispose of at their will and pleasure as fully as any other cor- 
poration or body politic within that part of our Kingdom of Great 



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OF GRACE CHURCH 259 

Britain called England, or in our Province of New York may law- 
fully do. Provided that such messuages and real estate as they 
or their successors shall have or may be entitled unto shall not at 
anyone time exceed the actual value of Five Hundred Pounds cur- 
rent money of our said Province over and above the said Church 
and the ground on which the same stands and the cemetery afore- 
said : and further we will and ordain and by these presents for us, 
our heirs and successors do declare and appoint that for the better 
ordering and managing the affairs and business of the said corpora- 
tion there shall be one Rector of the Church of England as by law 
established, duly qualified for the care of souls, two church wardens 
and eight vestrymen from time to time constituted, elected and 
chosen for the said Church in manner and form as is hereafter in 
these presents expressed, which Rector and Church wardens, 
or any two of them, together with the Vestrymen, or the 
major part of them for the time being, shall have and are 
hereby invested with full power and authority to dispose, order 
and govern the general business and affairs of and concerning 
the said Church called Grace Church, and all such lands, tene- 
ments, hereditaments, real and personal estate, as shall or may 
be purchased or acquired for the use thereof as aforesaid, and 
further we will and grant that the said Rector and inhabitants 
of the Parish and township of Jamaica in Queens County, in 
communion of the Church of England as by law established, 
and their successors, shall and will for ever hereafter have a 
common seal to serve and use for all matters, causes, things 
and affairs whatsoever of them and their successors, and full 
power and authority to break, alter, change and new make the 
same or any other common seal from time to time at their free 
will and pleasure as they shall see fit. 

AND for the better execution of our Royal Will and pleasure 
herein, we do assign, constitute and appoint the said Samuel 
Smith Junior and John Troup to be the present Church 
Wardens and the said Benjamin Whitehead, Thomas Betts, 
Jacob Ogden, Thomas Braint, Richard Betts, William Sher- 
lock, John Comts and Thomas Lointman to be present Vestry- 
men of the said Church and to hold and enjoy their several 
offices until the first Tuesday in Easter week next ensuing 
and no longer. AND FURTHER our will and pleasure is 
and we do for us, our heirs and successors establish, appoint 



260 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

and direct that on the said first Tuesday in Easter week ensu- 
ing, and once in every year forever thereafter on Tuesday in 
Easter Week, in every year, at the said Church the inhabitants 
of the said Parish and Township of Jamaica in Queens County 
in communion of the Church of England as by law established 
for the time being, or the major part of them, then and there 
assembled, shall elect, chuse and appoint two of their members 
Church Wardens and eight others of their members to be 
Vestrymen of the said Church for the ensuing year, which 
Church Wardens and Vestrymen so to be chosen and appointed 
shall immediately enter upon their respective offices and hold 
and exercise the same for and during the term of one whole 
year from the time of such elections respectively or until other 
fit persons shall be elected in their respective places: AND 
we do ordain and declare that as such the church wardens 
and vestrymen by these presents nominated and constituted 
as such as shall from time to time hereafter be elected and 
appointed shall have and they are hereby invested with full 
power and authority to execute and perform their several and 
respective offices in as full and ample manner as any church 
wardens or vestrymen in that part of our Kingdom of Great 
Britain called England or in our Province of New York have 
or lawfully may or can do. AND if it shall happen that any 
or either of the Church Wardens or Vestrymen by these pres- 
ents named and appointed, or hereafter to be elected and chosen, 
shall dye or remove from the said Parish and Township or 
refuse or neglect to officiate in the said respective offices be- 
fore their or either of their appointed time of service therein 
be expired then and in every such case it shall and may be law- 
full to and for the said Rector and inhabitants of the said Parish 
and Township of Jamaica in Queens County in communion of 
the Church of England as by law established for the time being 
or the major part of such them as shall assemble together for 
that purpose at the said Church at some day within a month 
next after such death, removal, refusal or neglect, to be ap- 
pointed by the Rector and Church Wardens for the time being, 
or any two of them, to proceed iii manner aforesaid and make 
a new election and appointment of one or more of their mem- 
bers for the time being to supply the room or place of such 
person or persons so dying, removing, refusing or neglecting 



OF GRACE CHURCH 261 

to act in his or their respective office and offices as aforesaid 
and so often as shall be needfull and requisite. AND for the 
due and orderly conduct and carrying on the respective elec- 
tions of Church Wardens and Vestrymen, by these presents 
established and ordained, our Will and pleasure is and we do 
declare and direct that the Rector of the said Church for the 
time being shall give publick notice thereof from time to time, 
as they become necessary and are hereby appointed, by pub- 
lishing the same at the said Church immediately after divine 
service on the Sunday next preceeding the day appointed for 
such election. AND further we do will and by these presents 
for us our heirs and successors ordain, appoint and direct that 
the Rector and Church Wardens of the said Church for the 
time being, or any two of them, shall and may from time to 
time, upon all occasions assemble and call together the said 
Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen for the time being, or 
the greater number of them, the said Vestrymen with said 
Rector and Church Wardens, or any two of them, together 
with the said Vestrymen, or the major part of them, shall be 
and by these presents are authorized and empowered to consult, 
advise and consider and by a majority of votes to do, direct, 
manage, transact and carry on the interest and business and af- 
fairs of the said Church and to hold vestries for that purpose 
AND we do further give and grant unto the said Rector and 
inhabitants of the said Parish and Township of Jamaica in 
Queens County in communion of the Church of England as 
by law established and to their successors forever that the 
Rector and Church Wardens of the said Church for the 

time being, or any two of them, together with 
the Vestrymen of the said Church for the time being, or the 
major part of them, in Vestry assembled shall have full power 
and authority from time to time and at all times hereafter to 
make, ordain and constitute such rites, orders and ordinances 
for the good discipline and government of the members of 
the said Church and corporation and the interests thereof as 
they or the major part of them shall think fit and necessary 
so as such rules, orders and ordinances be not repugnant to 
the laws of that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called 
England or in this our Province of New York, but as only as 
may be agreeable thereto, which rules, orders and ordinances 



262 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

shall be from time to time fairly entered in a book or books 
to be kept for that purpose AND further our will and pleasure 
is that it shall and may be lawfull for the Rector and Church 
Wardens of the said Church, or any two of them, and the said 
Vestrymen or the major part of them, at the vestry to nomi- 
nate and appoint a clerk and sexton or bellringer for the said 
Church, and also a clerk and messenger to serve the vestry at 
their meetings and such other under officers as they shall stand 
in need of, to remain in their respective offices so long as the 
said Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen for the time 
being, or the major part of them, shall think fit and appoint. 
AND further we do for us our heirs and successors declare 
and grant that the patronage, advowson, donations or pre- 
sentations of and to the said Church shall appertain and belong 
to and is hereby invested in the Church Wardens and Vestry- 
men of the said Church for the time being and their successors 
for ever or the major part of them, where of one church warden 
shall always be one. AND further KNOW YE that we of our 
especial grace certain knowledge and meer motion have given, 
granted, ratified and confirmed, by these presents do for us our 
heirs and successors give, grant, ratify and confirm unto the 
said Rector and inhabitants of the Parish and Township of 
Jamaica in Queens County in communion of the Church of 
England as by law established, and their successors for ever, 
ALL that the said Church and grounds on which the same 
stands, and the cemetery belonging to the same, containing in 
the whole about half an acre To have and to hold all and' 
singular the premises aforesaid with the appurtenances unto 
them the said Rector and inhabitants of the Parish and Town 
ship of Jamaica in Queens County in communion of the Church 
of England as by law established and their successors to their 
only proper use and behoof forever. To be holden of us, our 
heirs and successors in free and common socage as of manor 
in East Greenwich in the County of Kent within that part of 
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England. Yielding, ren- 
dering and paying therefore unto us, our heirs and successors 
yearly and every year forever on the feast day of Annuncia- 
tion of the Blessed Virgin Mary at our City of New York 
unto our or their Receiver General there for the time being 
an annual rent of one pepper corn if demanded in lieu and 
stead of all other rents, duties, services, claims, and demands 



OF GRACE CHURCH 263 

whatsoever for the premises. And lastly we do for us, our heirs 
and successors ordain and grant unto the said Rector and in- 
habitants of the Parish and Township of Jamaica in Queens 
County in communion of the Church of England as by law 
established, and their successors, by these presents that this our 
grant shall be firm, good, effectual and available in all things 
in the laws to all intents, constitutions and purposes whatso- 
ever according to our best intents and meaning herein before 
declared and shall be construed, reputed and adjudged in all 
cases and causes most favorably on the behalf and for the best 
benefit and advantage of the said Rector and inhabitants of 
the Parish and Township of Jamaica in Queens County in 
communion of the Church of England as by law established and 
their successors although express mention of the yearly value 
or certainty of the premises or any of them in these presents 
is or are not made any matter, cause or thing to the contrary 
thereof notwithstanding. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF we have caused these our 
letters to be made patent and the great seal of our said Province 
of New York to be hereunto affixed and the same to be entered 
on record in our Secretary's office of our said Province in on^ 
of the books of patents there remaining. 

WITNESS our said trusty and wellbeloved Cadwallader 
Colden, Esquire, President of our Council and Commander-in- 
Chief of our Province of New York and the territories depend- 
ing thereon in America at our Fort in our said City of New 
York the seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord one 
thousand seven hundred and sixty-one and of our reign the first. 

(Second skin line 14 the word do interlined and line 19 the 
words part of wrote on an erasure. 

Clarke. 

New York, Secretary's Office, ist July 1761. 

The within letters patent or charters are recorded in this 
office in Liber Patents No. 13 Pages 373 to 378. 

Geo. Banyan, D. Secy. 



264 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER. 

There was an act of the Legislature to amend the charter 
of Grace Church in 1793. 

This amendment was to alter the name (style) of the old 
Corporation from 

"The rector and inhabitants of the parish and township of 
Jamaica in Communion of the Church of England, as by law 
established" to "the rector and inhabitants of the town of Ja- 
maica in Communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church, &c." 

Residents of Jamaica only voted or were chose to office. 

"In 1842, on petition to the Legislature, the Charter of the 
Church was so amended that residents of Flushing and New- 
town, if of full age, pewholders in Grace Church, belonging to 
it for the last twelve months, or received therein by baptism, 
confirmation, or receiving the communion were allowed equal 
rights thereafter." 



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THE 

REGISTER OF REV. JOHN POYER. 

JULY 22. 1710, TO NOV. 28, 1731 



OF GRACE CHURCH 267 



LETTER OF PERMISSION TO PUBLISH RECORDS. 

February i, 1913. 

Rev. Horatio Oliver Ladd, 

Rector Emeritus Grace Church. 

Dear Sir: — 

I beg- to inform you that at a meeting of the Vestry of Grace 
Church, held on the 28th ult., the following resolution w^as 
adopted : 

"That permission be and hereby is granted to the Rev. Dr. 
Ladd to publish the papers mentioned in his letter of January 
28, 1913." 

Very truly yours, 

Byron W. Baker, 

Clerk of the Vestry. 

Mr. Poyer's Register includes entries for Flushing and New- 
town, besides those that were brought to him, from remote 
parts of Long Island. The original is in the size and shape of 
a copy book, the entries of baptism and marriages are in par- 
allel columns and so pale as to require a magnifying glass to 
read them. A few leaves are lost; the rest are in a perishable 
condition and yellow with age. 

This register was first printed by the kind permission of 
Rev. Edwin B. Rice, rector in 1883, in a genealogical magazine. 
It is the only one of Grace Church Registers which has been 
before published. The sample page in the illustrations shows 
how unlike in form and writing this is to the others. 

The Parish records from 1732 to 1780, were lost during the 
rectorship of Dr. Johnson. They were kept in a box and may 
have been destroyed in the burning of the Church. 



268 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

THE REGISTER BOOK FOR THE PARISH OF JAMAICA. 

KEPT BY THE REV. THOMAS POYER, RECTOR FROM I7IO TO 1/32. 
PEBSONS BAPTIz'd, YE TIME WN AND PLACE WHERE. 

Samuel ye Son of Samuel & Hannah Smith July 23, 1710 at 
Jamaica. 

Ruth ye Daughter of Peter & Abigail White July 23, 17 10 at 
Jamaica. 

Jno ye Son of Jno & Freelove Burrows August 27, 1710 at 
Jamaica. 

Richd ye Son of Thos & Mary Evans August 13, 1710 at New 
Town. 

Deborah ye Daughter of Jno & Rebecca Smith of Sealtauket, 
aged 21, 7ber 7, 1710 at Jamaica. 

Sarah, ye Daughter of Samuel & Frances Walker of Brookland 
in King's County 7ber 7, 17 10 at Jamaica. 

Robert, Hester, Judith, Susanna, Jno, Daniel, Sons & Daughters 
of Johhathan & Judith Murrail 8ber i, 1710 at New Town. 
Thos ye Son of Peter & Elizabeth Quacoe Sber 29, 1710 at N. 
Town. 

Augustin ye Son of Will & Mary Crook lober 3, 17 10 at Jamaica. 
Abigail ye Daughter of Thos Murraile & Ann Glenn of N. Town 
lober 31, 171 1, at N. Town. 

Mary ye Daughter of Joel and Deborah Burrows Jan 2, 1710 at 
Jamaica. 

Daniel ye Son of Thos & Jane Whitehead, Feb 14, 1710 at Ja- 
maica. 

Jonathan & Rebecca ye Son & Daughter of James & Rebecca Haz- 
ard of N. Town, Feb 26, 1710 at New Town. 
EHzabeth ye Daughter of Thos & Sarah Willet April 19, 171 1 at 
Flushing. 

Peter ye Son of Samuel & Katherine Clowes Jan 10, 171 1 at 
Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of Walter & Margaret Jones April 20, 171 1 
at Jamaica. 
Elizabeth & Marsi, ye Daughters of Richd & Mary Grego Mar 

25, 171 1 at New Town. 

Johannes Daniel ye Son of Augustus & Elizabeth Bernard Mar 

26, 171 1 at New Town 



OF GRACE CHURCH 269 

Jemima ye Daughter of Jno & Ruth Smith 8ber i8, 171 1, ati 
Jamaica. 

Jno ye Son of Jno & EHnor Turner giber 18, 171 1 at Jamaica. 
Mary ye wife of Wm Fowler Qber 29, 171 1 at Flushing. 
Mary ye Daughter of Wm & Mary Fowler Qber 29, 171 1 at Flush- 
ing. 

William ye Son of Jno & Elizabeth Jackson lober 16, 171 1 at 
Jamaica. 

Richd & Samuel ye Sons of Richd & Marsi Cornell Feb. 14, 
1711/12 at Flushing. 

Deborah ye Daughter of Joseph & Elizabeth Dean Feb 14 1711/12 
at Flushing. 

Daniel ye Son of Peter & Abigail White, March 9, 171 1 at 
Jamaica. 

Sarah ye Daughter of Jeptha and Katherine Lewis Apr. 13, 1712 
at New Town. 

Benjamin ye Son of Edward & Mary Phillips Apr. 13, 1712 at 
Newtown. 

Rich ye Son of Richd & Mary Betts May 4, 1712 at Jamaica. 
Samuel ye Son of Thomas & Dinah Howel May 18, 1712 at 
Jamaica. 

Catherine ye Daughter of Robt & Abigail Reade, May 29, 1712 
at Jamaica. 

James ye Son of Robert Mijward & Elizabeth Hadlock June 22, 
1712 at Jamaica. 

Wm Hallett aged July 9, 171 2 at Hellgate. 

Joseph ye Son of Edward & Mary Higby July 15, 1712, aged 17 
years at Jamaica. 

James ye Son of Jno Stevens and Rachel Hugans July 15, 1712 
at Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of Samuel and Hannah Smith 8ber 19, 1712 
at Jamaica. 

Ruth ye Daughter of Wm & Derica Woolsey 9ber 2, 1712 at 
Jamaica. 

Stephen ye Son of Jno & Freelove Burrows lober 14, 1712 atJ 
Jamaica. 

Thos ye Son of Francis & Catherine Sawyer lober 22, 1712 at 
Jamaica. 

Francis ye Son of Jaspar & Elizabeth Francis lober 28, 1712 at 
Jamaica. 



270 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Nathan, Sarah and Iday, ye children of Jno & Margaret Clemens 
lober 31, 1712 at Flushing. 

Willm, Jno Charles, Bickely, Sarah, Jane, Children of Thos & 
Elizabeth Whellin Jan i, 171 2 at Jamaica. 

Thos ye Son of Joel & Deborah Burrows Feb 22, 1712 at Jamaica. 
Sarah ye Daughter of Thos & Margaret Rattoon April 16, 1713 
at Jamaica. 

Johnathan Whitehead aged 41 April 18, 171 3 at Jamaica. 
Daniel, Abigail, Charity, Thos Benjamin, Sarah, Deborah, Sus- 
anna, Children of Jonathan and Sarah Whitehead, April 18, 1713 
at Jamaica. 

Robt ye Son of Jno & Hicks, May 21, 1713 at Flushing. 

Joseph Hallett and Lydia his Wife, Samuel Moor jun and Charity 
his Wife, Geo. Hallett, persons at riper years, baptized August 
6, 17 1 3 at Hellgate. 

Joseph, Moses, Mary and Wm, Children of the aforesd Jo & Lydia 
Hallet, baptiz'd at Hell-Gate August 6, 1713. 

Sarah ye Daughter of Jacob & Mary Blackwel, baptiz'd at Hell- 
Gate August 7, 1 71 3. 

Jno ye Son of Jno and Elizabeth Bartow 7ber 6, 1713 at Flushing. 
Hannah. Garret & Alice Furman 8ber 25, 1713 at Jamaica, persons 
grown up or at riper years. 

Arthur Smith 7ber 27, 171 3 aged at Jamaica. 

Susanna, ye Daughter of Peter Sonmans & Elizabeth Arnold 
8ber 28, 17 13 at Newtown. 

Catherine ye Daughter of Samuel and Catherine Clowes lober 
21, 1713 at Jamaica. 

Jno Whellin aged Jan 18, 171 3 at Jamaica. 

Wm West aged 41, Jan. 26, 171 3 at Newtown. 
Mary ye Daughter of James & Mary Dunnalson April 11, 1714 
at Jamaica by Mr. Halliday. 

James & Sarah, Negroes of Samuel Clowes May 23, 1714 at 
Jamaica. 

Catherine ye Daughter of Jno & Elizabeth Walker June 5, 1714 
at Newtown. 

Hannah ye Daughter of Richd & Sarah Abril, August 26, 1714 
at Jamaica. 

Martha ye Daughter of Jeremiah & Martha Ganong Jany 19, 1714 
at Flushing. 
Elizabeth ye wife of Jno Bartow Mar 2, 1714 aged 



OF GRACE CHURCH 271 

Frances, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah & Mary, Children of Jno & 
Eliz. Bartow March 2, 1714 at Jamaica. 

William ye Son of Jno & Sarah Whelin, April 7, 1715 at Jamaica. 
Thos ye Son of Josias and Isabella Wiggins, April 17, 1715 at 
Jamaica 

Mar}' ye Daughter of Thos & Dinah Howel April 23, 17 15 at 
Jamaica. 

Jno ye Son of Jno & Margaret Clemens July 24, 171 5, at Jamaica. 
Catherine ye Daughter of Francis & Sarah Nicols, September 18, 
17 15 at Jamaica. 

Sarah, Phillis & Henry, negroes of Thos & Frances Poyer Sep- 
tember I, 171 5 at Jamaica. 

Wm. ye Son of James Hazard 8ber 22, 171 5 at Newtown. 
Joseph ye Son of Samuel & Katherine Clowes Qber 20, 17 15 at 
Jamaica. 

Wm ye Son of Wm & Rachl Stroud Jan 22, 1715 at Jamaica. 
Sarah yc wife of Jno Goldin & Jno their son Feb 26, 1715/16 at 
Jamaica. 

Elizabeth ye Daughter of Peter & Catherine Nick April 3. 1716 
at Newtown. 

Abigail, ye Daughter of Arthur & Abigail Smith Ap. 22, 1716 
at Jamaica. 

Amy ye Daughter of Jno & Elizabeth Bartow June 10, 1716 at 
Jamaica. 

Benjamin ye Son of Saml Bayless & Goldin July 26, 1716 

at Jamaica. 

Margaret the Daughter of Edward a Negro of ye Widow Maro- 
cin and of Jane a negro of Mr. Jno Tredwell Aug 19, 1716 at 
Jamaica. 

Henry ye Negro of Andrew Van Alst 7ber 23, 171 5 at Newtown. 
Catherine ye daughter of Peter & Abigail White 7ber 30, 1716 at 
Jamaica. 

Jno ye Son of Jno & Sarah Whellin 8ber 3, 1716 at Jamaica. 
Francis ye Son of Jeptha and Catherine Lewis 8ber 21, 1716 at 
Newtown. 

James ye Son of Jno & Margaret Clement Sber 25, 1716 at 
Flushing. 

Jacob Dean aged Jany 7, 1716 at Jamaica. 

Johanna ye Daughter of Edward & Johanna Blagg Jany 17, 1716 
at Jamaica. 



272 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Samuel Dean and Saml, Abraham, Sarah, Phebe, Abigail and Cuz- 

ziah Children of Saml and Hannah Dean Jany 24, 1716 at Jamaica. 

Jno Dean and Stephen ye Son of Jno and Mary Dean Janry 24, 

1716 at Jamaica. 

Henry ye Son of Ben: and Arianthe Taylor March 5, 1716 at 

Jamaica. 

Adam Lawrence April 9, 1717 at Jamaica. 

Daniel ye Son of Samuel and Hannah Smith April 14, 171 7 at 

Jamaica. 

Sarah ye Daughter of Henry & Jane Negroes of Mr. Andrew 

Van Alst June 16, 1717 at Newtown. 

Jno ye Son of Richd & Mary Betts June 23, 1717 at Jamaica. 

Catherine ye Wife of Ephraim Goldin & Percival their son June 

2, 1717 at Jamaica. 

Francis ye Son of Thos & Elizabeth Whellin July 7, 1717 at 

Jamaica. 

Sarah ye Daughter of Jno & Elizabeth Fish August 11, 1717 at 

Newtown. 

Deborah the daughter of Saml & Catherine Dean Septber i, 1717 

It Jamaica. 

Richard Stockton of East Jersey 8ber 21, 1717 aged 22 years at 

Jamaica. 

Benjamin ye Son of Joseph & Patience Dean 8ber 2^, 1717 at 

Jamaica. 

Catherine ye daughter of Christopher & Ann Tuly Jan 5, 1717 

at Jamaica. 

Leonard ye Son of Arthur & Abigail Smith Feb 16, 171 7 at 

Jamaica. 

Matthew ye Son of Jno & Sarah Goldin June 29, 1718 at Jamaica. 

Elizabeth ye Wife & Mary ye Daughter of Thos Umphreys July 

12, 1718 at Jamaica. 

Elizabeth ye Daughter of Thos & Eliz : Umphreys August 14, 

1718 at Jamaica. 

Judith ye Daughter of Simon & Sarah Negroes of Thos & Frances 

Poyer Aug 24, 1718 at Jamaica. 

Charles ye Son of Jno & Elizabeth Roe 7ber 7, 1718 at Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of Walter & Hannah Harris 7ber 9, 1718 at 

Great Neck. 

Rachel ye Daughter of George & Reynolds 7ber 14, 1718 at 

Newtown. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 273 

Jno & Mary, Children of Joseph & Rachel Barton 8ber 19, 1718 
at Jamaica. 

Thos ye Son of the aforesd Joseph by his 2d Wife Abigail ye 
same time & Place. 

Hester & Diana Negroes of Caleb & Martha Heathcote 9ber 2, 
1718 at Jamaica. 

Catherina ye Daughter of Sanil & Catherine Clowes 9ber 9, 1718 
at Jamaica. 

Jemima the Daughter of William & Susanna Hodger 9ber 15, 
1718 at Jamaica. 

Elizabeth the Daughter of Caleb & Martha Heathcote Jany 25, 
1718 at Jam. 

Thos ye Son of Jno & Sarah Whellin Feby ye 8th 1718 at 
Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of Ephraim & Katherine Goldin Feby ye 8th 
1718 at Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of John & Margaret Clement Feby ye 19th, 
1718 at Flushing. 

Richard, John, Solomon, Mary, Elizabeth and Phebe Children of 
Richard & Mary Combs March 14, 1718 at Jamaica. 
Benjamin ye Son of Benjamin & Arianthe Taylor March 16, 1718 
at Jamaica. 

Thos ye Son of Richd & Mary Betts Ap. 22, 1719 at Jamaica. 
Deborah ye Daughter of Adam & Sarah Lawrence Aug. 9, 1719 
at Flushing. 

Jno ye Son of Daniel & Hannah Denton Aug. 12, 1719 at Ja- 
maica. 

Ann yc Daughter of Robert & Wells 9ber i, 17 19 at Ja- 

maica. 

Sarah ye Daughter of Saml & Hannah Smith 9ber 8, 1719 at 
Jamaica. 

James ye Son of George & Bythia Reynolds 9ber 15, 1719 at 
Newtown. 

■ — Ibert ye Son of — & Jane Nicols lober 22, 1719 at Jam. 
Maij ye Daughter of Jno & Catherine Goodin lober 20, 1719 
at Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of Sam. & Cath. Clowes 9ber 21, 1720 at 
Jamaica. 

Catherine ye Daughter of Gerardus & Sarah Clowes Janry 8th 
1720 at Jamaica. 



274 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

John ye Son of Benjamin & Arianthe Taylor Jany 29th 1720 at 

Jamaica. 

Eliz. ye Daughter of Richd Joy and Ann Tonstal Mar. 26th i 2 

at Jamaica. 

Augustin ye Son of George & Reynolds June 18, 1721 at 

Newtown. 

Sarah ye Daughter of Robt & Sarah Willis August i 1725 at 

Flushing. 

Ann ye Daughter of James & Mary Smalshanks Aug i 1725 at 

Flushing. 

Ann ye Daughter of Daniel & Elinor Whitehead August 6 1725 

at Jamaica. 

Joseph Oldfield ye Son of Thos & Sarah Poyer 7ber 19, 1725 at 

Jamaica. 

Stephen ye Son of Benjamin & Rachel Wiggins Febry 20, 1725 

at Jamaica. 

Jno & Sarah Children of Jno & Julia Miller Feby 20, 1725 at 

Jamaica. 

Wm ye Son of Guy & Elizabeth Young Mar 7, 1725 at Jamaica. 

Wm ye Son of Robert & Wood Mar 27th 1726 at Newtown. 

Smith ye Son of Wm & Deborah Steed May 8th 1726. 

Lewis ye Son of Joseph & Abigail Barton. Do Do Do. 

Mary ye Daughter of Richd & Charity Comes. Do Do Do. 

Thos ye Son of John & Elinor Hicks June 19, 1726 at Jamaica. 

Deborah ye Daughter of Jno & Elizabeth Willett July 3d 1726 

at Jamaica. 

Martha ye Daughter of Robt & Sarah Willis, July 31, 1726 at 

Flushing. 

Robt ye Son of Thos & Catherine Martimore July 31, 1726 at 

Jamaica. 

Saml ye Son of Edward & Eliz. Willett 7ber 11, 1726 at Jamaica. 

Sarah ye Daughter of John & Sarah Whellin Do Do Do. 

Catherine ye Daughter of Thos & Charity Brown 7 ber 18, 1726 

at Jamaica. 

Willett ye Son of Benjamin & Arianthe Taylor 9ber 6, 1726 at 

Jamaica. 

Elizabeth ye Daughter of Thos & Hannah Whitehead 9ber 20, 

1726, at Jamaica. 

Thos ye Son of Thos & Sarah Poyer xber 8, 1726 by Revnd Mr 

Jenney at Jamaica. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 275 

Thos ye Son of Edward & Sarah Jones xber ii, 1726 at Jamaica. 

Caleb ye Son of Gershon & Mary Wiggins xber 26, 1726 aged 

12 years at Jamaica. 

Gilbert ye Son of Adam & Lawrence Janry 5th, 1726 at great 

Plain. 

Richd Green aged Febry 4, 1726 at Springfield. 

Daniel ye Son of Guy & Eliza Youngs March 20, 1726 at Jamaica. 

Martha ye Wife of James Hazard and Bridget Hallett April 9, 

1727 at Newtown. 

Jno the Son of Gerardus & Sarah Clowes June 18, 1727 at Jamaica. 

Gilbert ye Son of Foster & Mary Waters Aug 13, 1727 at Jamaica. 

Susanna ye Wife of William Barnet 7ber 19th 1727 at Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of Jno & Catherine Bedford 8ber 8th 1727 at 

Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of James & Mary Smallshanks 8ber 15, 1727 

at Flushing. 

Benjamin ye Son of Robert & Sarah Willis 9ber 12, 1727 at 

Flushing. 

Jno ye Son of Jno & Elizabeth Walker 9ber 23, 1727 at Jamaica. 

Danl ye Son of Daniel & Elinor Whitehead Jany 7th 1727 at ye 

Mill. 

Charity ye Daughter of Wm & Deborah Steed Jany 21, 1727 at 

Jamaica. 

Hannah ye Daughter of Thos & Catherine Martimore Jany 30th 

1727 at Jamaica. 

Adam, Benjamin, Margaret, EHzabeth & Martha Children of Jo. 

and Elizabeth Kinley Feby 9th 1727 at Springfield. 

Charles Wright of Newtown & Ruth the Daughter of Charles & 

Ann Wright Mar 3, 1727 at Jamaica. 

Elizabeth ye Daughter of Benjamin & Rachel Wiggins March 3, 

1727 at Jamaica. 

Wm ye Son of George & Furnace Mar 29, 1727 at Newtown. 

Hannah ye Daughter of Saml & Murrail Mar 24, 1727 at^ 

Nev/town aged 

Cynthia ye Daughter of Jno & Julia Miller Mar 31, 1728 at 

Jamaica. 

Catherine ye Daughter of Thos & Hester Brown ye Same Day & 

Place. 

Abraham ye Son of Aaron Furman & Catherine Brass April 16, 

1728 at Jamaica. 



276 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Mary ye Daughter of James & Charity Leonard May 5th 1728 at 

Jamaica. 

Elizabeth the Daughter of John & EHzabeth Willett Do Do Do. 

Wm ye Son of Thos & Eliz. Umphreys July 14, 1728 at Jamaica. 

James ye Son of Pierre Pool & Mary his Wife baptiz'd same day. 

Sarah ye Daughter of Edward & Sarah Jones July 28th 1728 at 

Jamaica. 

Johanna ye Daughter of Edward & Alette Willett 8ber 27th 1728 

at Flushing. 

Hannah ye Daughter of Thos & Hannah Whitehead Febry 16, 

1728 at Jamaica. 

Jno ye Son of Thos & Sarah Poyer March 20, 1728 at Jamaica. 
Thos ye Son of Jos: & Hannah Sackett May 11, 1729 at New- 
town & 

Deborah ye Daughter of Nathaniel & Susannah Lawrence at ye 
same Time and Place. 

Susannah ye Wife of Nathaniel Lawrence July 6th 1729 at New- 
town. 

Hannah Kezia & Abigail Daughters of Johhathan & Parnel Mur- 
rel July 11, 1729 at Jamaica. 

Elizabeth ye Daughter of Thos Brown & Catherine Goodin, July 
16, 1729 at Jamaica. 

Cornelia ye Daughter of James & Mary Smalshanks Aug 17, 1729 
pr Mr. Jenney. 

James ye Son of James & Catherine Davies 7ber 14, 1729 at 
Flushing. 

Jno ye Son of Foster & Mary Waters, Charity ye Daughter of 
Thos & Hester Brown & Sarah & Elizabeth Daughters of Wm & 
Deborah Steed 8ber 19, 1729 at Jamaica. 
Helena ye Daughter of Benjamin & Eliza Whitehead 8ber 20, 

1729 at Jamaica. 

Jno ye Son of Thos & Cumins 9ber 9, 1729 at Flushing. 

Sarah ye Daughter of Jno & Elizabeth Willett 9ber 16, 1729 at 

Jamaica. 

Sarah ye Daughter of Jno & Elizabeth Willett 9ber 16, 1729 at 

Jamaica. 

Jno ye Son of Small & Bridget Hallett & Lydia & Martha their 

Daughters. Saml ye Son of Jno &. Hannah Washbourn. Thos, 

Jacob, James & Saml Sons & Sarah ye Daughter of Joseph & 

Lydia Hallett & Nathl ye Son of Jos & Mary Hallett. Mary ye 



OF GRACE CHURCH 277 

Daughter of Jacob & Mary Blackwell. Wm, Saml & Jeptha Sons 
of Jeptha & Catherine & EHz. Dau. of Peter & Susanna Jany 7th 

1729 at Hell-Gate. 

Mary ye Daughter of Johhathan & Parnel Murrell Feb 8, 1729 

at Jamaica. 

Hannah ye Negro of Joel & Deborah Burroughs Mar 3, 1729 at 

Jamaica. 

Saml ye Son of Edw. & Sarah Jones May 8, 1730 at Jam. 

Elinor ye Daughter of Benjn & Elizabeth Whitehead June 7, 1730 

at Jamaica. 

Jno ye Son of Thos & Elizabeth Umphreys June 10, 1730 at 

Jamaica aged 2^ Y. 

Charity ye Daughter of Benjamin & Rachel Wiggins July 19, 

1730 at Jamaica. 

Thos ye Son of Richd & Charity Comes & Eliza ye Daughter of 

Jno & Hannah Whellin 7ber 13, 1730 at Jamaica. 

Wm ye Son of David & Jane McErmy 7ber 27, 1730 at Jamaica. 

Jno ye Son of Foster & Mary W^aters & Mary ye Daughter of 

Jno & Eliza Bannister 8ber 25, 1730 at Jamaica. 

Elizabeth ye Daughter of Thos & Catherine Martimore Feby 28, 

1730 as also Julia ye Daughter of John & Julia Miller. 

Parnell ye Wife of Jonan Murrell Mar 13, 1730 at Jamaica. 

Eliza ye Daughter of Nathaniel & Susanna Lawrence Mar 21, 

1730 at Newtown. 

Mary ye Daughter of Wm & Susanna Row April 4, 1731 at 

Flushing. 

Edward ye Son of Edward & Alette Willett April 22, 1731 at 

Jamaica. 

The following entry was copied by Henry Onderdonk, Jr., from 
the last leaf of Mr. Foyer's Sermon: 
1723, Jan 24. William son of Henry & Rebecca Lloyd. 
James, John Joseph and Sarah children of James and Martha 
Matthis. 

James Son of Thos. & Bathsheba Everet. 
Wright Son of Abm & Sarah Everet. 
Ann Daughter of Daniel & Charity Madock. 



278 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

THE REGISTER BOOK FOR THE PARISH OF JAMAICA. 

KEPT BY THE REV. THOMAS FOYER, RECTOR FROM 171O TO 1732. 

Persons married, ye time wn & place where. 

Thomas Glenn & Mary Wildey both of Flushing July 22, 17 10 at 
Jamaica, Licens'd. 

Jno Weeton & Geartea Nuller both of N. York Septber 10, 1710 
at Jamaica, licens'd. 

Samuel Mills & Abigail Smith, both of Jamaica lober 11, 1710 
at Jamaica, published. 

Nathan Silleck of Stanford & Mary Sands of Hempstead lober 
13, 1710 at Cow Neck, licens'd. 

Ben: Moore & Hannah Sackett both of New Town lOber 27, 1710 
ber at New Town, publish'd. 

Lewis Hulet of Hempstead & Grace Hallet Of N. Town at Ja- 
maica, Jan 18, 1710. 
Jno Sipkins of N. York & Deborah Alsop of N. Town Feb. 18, 

1710 at Jamaica, licens'd. 

Richard Betts of N. Town & Mary Creed of Jamaica April 10, 

171 1 at Jamaica, licens'd. 

Daniel Wright & Eliphant Townsend, both of Oysterbay May 5th 

171 1 at Jamaica licens'd. 

Jacob Blackwal & Mary Hallet both of N. Town May 10, 171 1 

at Hell-Gate, licens'd. 

Theophilus Ketcham & Eliz. Reeker both of N. Town May 10, 

171 1 at Hell-Gate, licens'd. 

Daniel Phillips & Catherine Kimball May 21, 171 1 at Jamaica, 

publish'd. 

Daniel Stephenson of N. Town & Eliz. Willet of Flushing May 

24, 171 1 at Flushing, Hcens'd. 

Joseph Dean of Jamaica & Eliz. Cornhill of Flushing June 21. 

171 1 at Jamaica, publish'd. 

Henry Dusenbury of Hampstead & Mary Fowler of Flushing 

Qber 29, 171 1 at Flushing, publish'd. 

Wm West of New Town & Martha Furman of Jamaica lober 21. 

171 1 at Jamaica, publish'd. 

Wm Woolsey & Derica Williamson of Jamaica at Jamaica Jany 

4, 171 1 publish'd. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 279 

James Dunnalson & Mary Dizart May 21, 1712 at Jamaica, licens'd. 
Francis Croxon & Sarah Whelin 8ber 13, 171 2 at Jamaica, pub- 
lish'd. 

James Tolman & Abigail Hicks of Flushing 8ber 27, 17 12 at 
Jamaica, licens'd. 

Wm. Robenson of Woodbridge in ye East Jersey & Deborah Law- 
rence of Flushing Qber 7, 171 1 at Jamaica, licens'd. 

The four entries following were copied by Mr. Onderdonk from 
a loose piece of paper in Mr. Foyer's writing: 

1724 May 10. At Newtown Edward Son of John & Mary Green- 
oak. At Jamaica Edward Son of Edward & Phebe Cox. 

1725 Mar. 28th At Jamaica William Son of Johh & Elinor Hicks. 
I stood surety. 

1725 Ap. 21. At Jamaica Mary Daughter of Foster & Mary 
Waters. 

1725 May 9 at Jamaica Mary Daughter of Thos & — Stringham. 
Joseph ye Son of Joseph & Hallett April 25, 1731 at New- 

town. 

Wm Son of Jem & Mary Creed Do 25 Do at Do. 
Moses ye Son of Moses & Hallett Do 25 Do at Do. 
Thos ye Son of Obadiah & Elizabeth Kinksman May 21, 1731 at 
Flushing. 

Richard ye Son of Joseph & Mary Hallett July 25, 1731, at New- 
town. 

Edwd & Nicolas ye Sons of George & Catherine Reynolds August 
28, 1 73 1 at Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of Charles & Charity Hicks (formerly) now 
Doughty a Person of riper Years 7ber 13, 173 1 at Jamaica. 
Zachariah ye Son of Zachariah & Hester Allen 8ber i, 1731 at 
Jamaica. 

Jno ye Son of Jno & Catherine Bedford 8ber 16, 1731 at Jamaica. 
Elizabeth ye Daughter of Jno & Mungers 8ber 17, 1731 at 

Newtown. 

Lucretia Martise a free Negro-Woman & her Daughters Helena, 
Rachel & Sarah Qber 11, 1731 at Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of Benjamin & Hannah Moor 9ber 14, 1731 
at Newtown, a grown Person. 

Sarah ye Daughter of Thos & Sarah Poyer xber 2, 1731 & 
Gloriana ye Daughter of Jno Cornell & Charity Doughty Do Do 
Do at Jamaica. 



280 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

James Flower of Hempstead & Rebecca Stilwel of Jamaica Qber 
15, 1712 at Jamaica. 

Wm. Stroud & Rachel Hugins of Jamaica lober 2, 1712 at Jamaica, 
published. 

Jno Tolman & Jane Hedger of Flushing lober 11, 1712 at Ja- 
maica, licens'd. 

Thos Cornell of Hempstead & Charity Hicks of Flushinf^ lober 
20, 1712 at Flushing, licens'd. 

Richd Cornel & Miriam Mott of Hempstead Feb 8, 1712 with 
Certificate from Mr. Thomas Rectr of ye Parish. 
Wm. Hartshorn of New Jersey & Helena Willet of Flushing May 
I, 1713 at Flushing, licens'd. 

Abraham Willet & Susanna Stephenson of Flushing May i, 171 3 
at Flushing, licens'd. 

Richd Everet of Foster's Meadow in ye Parish of Hempstead & 
Sarah Rushmore of Flushing June 10, 17 13 published. 
Nicholas Lambert and Jane Cockifa of this Prsh, July 27, 1713 
at Jamaica, publish'd. 

David Scot and Elizabeth Darcee Feb. 22, 1713 at Flushing, pub- 
lish'd. 

Jno Foster and Elizabeth Smith Feb 23, 1713 at Jamaica, publish'd. 
Joshua Edwards & Elizabeth Hadlock March 11, 1713 at Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

George Ogilvie & Mary Arnold April 22, 1714 at Jamaica, publish'd. 
Benjamin Taylor & Arianthe Garrason May 26, 1714 at Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

Isaac Vanhook & Catherine Hanson June 27, 1714 at Jamaica, 
publish'd. 

John Cornell & Elizabeth Gardiner Octber 3, 1714 at Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

Benjamin Fowler of ys Prsh & Hannah Dusenburie of ye Prsh 
of Hempstead Nov i, 1714 at Jamaica, publish'd. 
Theophilus Phillips of Hopewell East Jersey & Elizabeth Betts 
of ys Prsh Nov 9, 17 14 at Newtown, publish'd. 
Daniel Waters & Mary Talman of ys Prsh Novber 18, 17 14 at 
Flushing, licens'd. 

Jacob Dayton & Grace Thurston of South-hold Novber 24, 17 14 
at Jamaica, licens'd. 
William Steed & Deborah Smith Feb 16, 1714 at Jamaica, licens'd. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 281 

Edward Churchill & Wanche Ryder Mar i, 1714 at Jamaica, pub- 
lished. 

Jno Goldin & Sarah Hedger Mar 11, 1714 at Jamaica, publish'd. 
Joseph Langdon & Hannah Carman Mar 30, 171 5 at Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

Walter Kippin & Man- Underbill June 12, 1715 at Newtown, 
licens'd. 

Peter Wilcocks & Phebe Badgeley September 15, 171 5 at Flushing, 
publish'd. 

Abraham Everet of Hempstead & Sarah Wright of Jamaica Oc- 
tober 6, 1715 at Jamaica publish'd. 

Thos Howel & Hannah Young of ye Prsh of Flushing Octo- 
ber 14, 171 5 pubhsh'd. 

Jonathan Murrail Junr & Pamel Moss of ye Parish at Xe\s-town 
9ber 2"^, 1715 publish'd. 

Walter Harris & Hannah Yeomans of Hempstead Prsh at Jamaica 
Jany. 20. 1715/16 licens'd. 

Abel Smith of Hempstead & Deborah Udal of Flushing Jann.- 2^,, 
1715 at Jamaica licens'd. 

Robt Prince & Mary Burgess of ye Prsh May 31. 1716 publish'd 
at Jamaica. 

Richard S}-mmons & Sarah Frost of Hempstead August 19. 1716 
at Jamaica hcens'd. 

Ephraim Goldin of ys Prsh & Catherine FlewheUin of ye Prsh of 
Hempstead August 20. 17 16 at Jamaica publish'd. 
Samuel Dean and Catherine Denton 8ber i. 1716 at Jamaica li- 
cens'd. 

Jno Brown k. Catherine Wiesnar of Wawayanda 8ber 8, 1716 
at Jamaica published. 

James Hazard & Martha Hallett Xovber 17, 1716 at Hell Gate 
licens'd. 

Henry S}"mmon5 & Rebecca Fowler Xovber 22, 1716 at Jamaica 
licens'd. 

Solomon Ridley & Mary Crannel X'ovber 23. 1716 at Hell-Gate 
licens'd. 

Phillip Brooks & Man.* Denman January- 2. 1716 at ve Kilns 
publish'd. 

Jno Fish & Elizabeth Hallett Feby 21, 1716 at Hell Gate publish'd. 
Wmo Harries & Man.' Furman Febv 22. 1716 at Xewtown. pub- 
lish'd. 



282 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Thos Hooper & Mary Hornett March 4, 1716 at Jamaica, pub- 
Hsh'd. 

Jno Losee & Antie Heptonstal March 30, 17 17, at Jamaica licens'd. 
Adam Lawrence & Sarah Willet April 11, 17 17, at Flushing, li- 
cens'd. 

Joseph Barton & Abigal Lewis May 5th 171 7 at Jamaica licensd. 
Solomon Denton & Atalanta Clay June 3. 1717 at Jamaica, pub- 
lish'd. 

Francis Nicols & Mary Smith, July 5, 17 17, at Jamaica, licens'd. 
Christopher Tuly & Ann Sanders July 24, 171 7 at Jamaica, pub- 
lished, gave her a certificate 8ber 8, 1718 Do to Mrs. Mimson. 
Thos Lewis and Mary Wiggins Aug 6, 1717 at Jamaica, publish'd. 
Joseph Dean & Patience Okely August 10, 1717 at Jamaica li- 
cens'd. 

Jno Aber & Mary Huls of Sealtauket 7ber 10, 1717 at Jamaica, 
publish'd there. 

Samll Mills & Elizabeth Hare 7ber 14, 1717 at Jamaica, publish'd. 
Jno Munden & EHzabeth Lashford 7ber 22, 1717 at Jamaica pub- 
Ish'd. 

Richd Stockton of East Jersey & Hester Smith of Jamaica Sber 
II, 1717 licens'd. 

Jno Roe & Elizabeth Tiex 9b 10, at Jamaica licens'd. 
Thos Volantine of Hemstead & Sarah Dean of Jamaica gber 12. 

1 717 at Jamaica pubHsh'd. 

Joseph Roades & Mary Smith of ys Prsh lober 20, 1717 at Ja- 
maica publish'd. 

George Hallett & Priscilla Allen of Newtown May 16, 1718 at 
Hell Gate licens'd. 
Philip Riche, New York, & Mary Hicks of Flushing June 25, 

1718 at little Neck, licens'd. 

Francis Judkin of New York & Ann Wooley of Madnam's Neck 
7ber 2y 1 718 at Jamaica. 

Moses Haight of ye Parish of Wt Chtr & Rachel Dean of ys 
Prsh xber 25, 1718 at Jamaica. 

The thirteen entries following were copied by Henry Onder- 
donk, Jr., from licenses and old sermons of Mr. Foyer's, and 
inserted by him in the Register : 

1723, Oct II. License. Thos Candale gent of Jamaica & Isabella 
Wiggins widow of Jamaica. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 283 

1723, Oct 20. License. Guy Youngs blacksmith of Jamaica & 
Elizabeth Edget of Jamaica. 

1723 July 20. License. Thos Willet Senr of Flushing & Kesiah 
Thorne of Flushing. 

1722, July 12. License. Thomas Howell tailor of Jamaica and 

Mary Wright widow of Westchester. 

1722, July 16. License. James Titus and Jane Simmons both of 

Hempstead. 

1 72 1, Dec 30. License. William Wiggins of Jamaica & Priscilla 

Latham of New York. 

172 1 June 4. License. Phineas Macintosh Merchant of N. York 

& Elizabeth Alsop of Queen's County. 

1724 August 18. License. James Leonard merchant of N. York & 
Charity Whitehead of Jamaica. 

1724 Sep 7. License. Wni Barnet yeoman of Jamaica & Susanna 
Griffin Widow of Flushing. 

1 72 1 June 19. License. Wm Mash of Flushing gent & Miriam 

Hadlock of Jamaica. 

1720 June 9. License. Israel Horsfield butcher of New York & 

Jane Watts of Hempstead. 

1720 Nov. 25. License. Benj. Doughty of Flushing carpenter & 

Abigail Whitehead of Jamaica. 

1720 April 23. license Theodoras Van Wyck of Hempstead & 

Elizabeth Creed of Jamaica. 

Samll Read & Elizabeth White of Newtown May 21, 1722 at 

Jamaica. 

The following six entries were inserted by Mr. Onderdonk: 
June 9, 1722. By license John Cornell of Hempstead & Abigail 
Whitehead of Jamaica. 

July 8, 1722. By license John Pudney of Hempstead cooper & 
Mary Thorne of Hempstead. 

1725 Sept 18 By license Edward Jones of Jamaica, Sadler & 
Sarah Welling of Jamaica. 

1725 May 6 by license Richard Thorne & Altie Van Wyck both 
of Hempstead. 

1725 May 7 License. Micah Smith & Phebe Thorne both of 
Hempstead. 

1726 April 12, License. Natha Birdsall & Jane Langdon both of 
Hempstead. 



284 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Jno Goodwin & Catherine Sawyer April 28th 17 19 at Jamaica, 
publish'd. 

Daniel Whitehead & Elinor Willett May 17, 1719 at Flushing, 
licensed. 

Jno Carr & Susanna Tellet Aug 30, 1719 at Jamaica, publish'd. 
John Carl & Ann Valentine of Hempstead 9ber 6, 1719, licensed. 
Wm Northam & Rebecca Davids Do Do publish'd at Hempstead. 
Thos Smalling & Catherine Jones Do Do published at Hempstead. 
Paul Hill & Phebe Smith 9ber 7, 1719 licens'd. 
Edwd Willett & Alette Clowes May 9, 1722 licens'd. 
Thos Brown & Charity Derickson Janry 8th 1720 at Jamaica, pub- 
lishd. 

Anthony Whitehead Waters & Margaret Willet May 21, 1726 at 
Jamaica licensed. 

Jno Featherby & Rachel Baldwin 7ber 26, 1725 at Jamaica, pub- 
lish'd. 

Wm Flazalton & Hannah Smith 7ber 30th 1725 at Jamaica, pub- 
lish'd. 

Jacob Titus & Margaret Jerman of Hempstead gber 29, 1725, pub- 
lish'd. 

Thos Whitehead & Hannah Sacket 9ber 5, 1725, at Newtown, 
licens'd. 

Thos Willett & Sarah Talman xber 31, 1725 at Jamaica, licens'd. 
James Alburtus & Grace Jacobs Febry 4th 1725 at Hempstead, li- 
censd. 

Timothy Wood & Hannah Oldfield Febry nth, 1725 at Jamaica 
publish'd. 

Robert Titus & Sarah Roberts July 20, 1726 at Jamaica, licens'd. 
Wm. Hilton & Agness Herring of N. York, 7ber 25, 1726 at 
Jamaica, licens'd. 

Jno Bedford & Catherine Wiggins xber 6 1726 at Jamaica licens'd. 
Benjamin Whitehead & Elizabeth Willett Febry 28, 1726 at Ja- 
maica, licens'd. 

Stephen Hicks & Catherine Vanwyck May 4th 1727 at Flushing 
licens'd. 

Thos Brown & Hester Van Velsa Aug 13, 1727 at Jamaica pub- 
lish'd. 

Jno Weeks & Ann White 8ber 30 1727 at Jamaica, licens'd. 
James Hincksman & Keziah Willett Jany 25, 1727 at Jamaica, 
licensd. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 285 

Joseph Kissam & Deborah Whitehead Febry 7, 1727 at Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

Stephen Evans & Catherine Brass Ap. 16, 1728 at Jamaica, pub- 
Hsh'd. 

Augustus Grassett & Elizabeth Whitehead July 24, 1728 at Ja- 
maica licens'd. 

Abraham Collins & Ann Major August nth 1728 at Jamaica, 
publish'd. 

Joseph Hallett & Mary Greenoak Aug 22, 1728 at N. Town, li- 
cens'd. 

Wm Creed & Mary Hallett xber 20, 1728 at Newtown, licens'd. 
Jno Whellin & Hannah Reed Jany 2^, 1728 at Jamaica, publish'd. 
Jno Thomas of Rye & Abigail Sands of Cow Neck in Prsh of 
Hempstead Febry 19, 1728 licens'd. 

Wm Umphreys & Mary Derickson Febry 25th 1728 published at 
Jamaica. 

Thos Doughty & Sarah Clement March 14, 1728 at Flushing. 
Jonas Spark & Mary Wright of Hempstead March 26, 1728 at 
Jamaica, licens'd & Certified. 

Jno Joley & Mary Christine 7ber 4, 1729 at Jamaica, licens'd. 
Thos Betts & Hannah Areson 9ber 5, 1729 at Flushing, licens'd. 
Danll Shandine & Walbrough Derickson xber 21, 1729 at Jamaica, 
publish'd. 

Wm Sackett & Mary James xber 31, 1729 at N. T. licens'd. 
Jno Hallett & Sarah Blackwell Apr. 3, 1730 at Mr. Blackwell's, 
publish'd. 

Thos Stevenson & Sarah Whitehead Apr. 29, 1730 at Jamaica li- 
cens'd. 

Leveridge Wright & Martha Phillips Aug 10, 1730 at Jamaica 
publish'd. 

Jno Bannister & Eliza Goldin 7ber 21, 1730 at Jamaica, publish'd. 
Geo. Reynolds & Catherine Stilwell xber i, 1730 at Jam. licens'd. 
Joseph Sackett & Millicent Clowes March 22^, 1730 at Jamaica, 
Hcens'd. 

John Farmer h Christian Lee, 8ber 23, 1731 at Jamaica, publish'd. 
Jno Skidmore & Mary Whitehead xber 17, 1731 at Loyal Neck 
in ye Parish of Jamaica. 

The four marriages following were entered by Mr. Onderdonk : 
1716 Dec. 10. By license. Robert Hobbs of Hempstead and 
Susanna Furman of Oyster Bay. 



286 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

1722 June 24. By license John Willet of Flushing & Elizabeth 

Laurence of Flushing. 

1722 Dec 12. Wm Willet of Westchester & Mary Bloodgood 

widow of Flushing. 

1719 July 23. By license. Thos Cornell gent of Hempstead & 

Elizabeth Smith of Jamaica. 

PERSONS BURIED Ye TIME Wn & PLACE WHERE. 

Thos Hughs of New Town August 18, 1710 at New Town. 

Jane ye Widow of Thos Hughs Sepber 6. 1 710 at New Town. 

Mary ye Daughter of Jno & Susanna Garretson 8ber 7, 17 10 at 

Jamaica. 

Andrew Mariner Sber 13, 1710 at Jamaica. 

Jno Dizer Sber 14, 1710 at Jamaica. 

Catherine ye Daughter of Sam : & Cath : Clowes Feb. 10. 1710 

at Jamaica. 

Daniel ye Son of Thos & Jane Whitehead March 23, 1710 at 

Jamaica. 

Jno Garretson June 21, 171 1 at Jamaica. 

Mary ye wife of Wm West of Newtown July 16. 171 1 at Jamaica. 

Richd Betts of New Town Qber 6, 171 1 at ye Kilns. 

Catherine ye Daughter of Robt & Abigail Read, June 2, 1712 

at Jamaica. 

Ruth ye Wife of Jno Smith June 9, 1712 at Jamaica. 

William White Senr Septber 6, 1712 at Jamaica. 

Ruth ye Daughter of Wm & Derica Woolsey Novber 11, 1712 at 

Jamaica. 

Jno Heptonstal 7ber 10, 1713 at Flushing. 

Susanna ye Daughter of Johnathan & Sarah Whitehead Septber 

18, 1713 at Jamaica. 

Richd Betts aged 113 Years Novber 20, 1713 at the Kills. 
Catherine ye Daughter of Samuel & Catherine Clowes January 

19, 1713 at Jamaica. 

Rebeca Woolsey aged 91 Feb. 5, 1713 at Jamaica. 

Winifred Thorn Feb 20, 1713 at Flushing. 

Robert ye Son of Robert Milward & Elizabeth Hadlock Feb 

28, 1713 at Jamaica. 

Rachel the Daughter of Francis & Catherine Sawyer Mar. 20, 

1713 at Jamaica. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 287 

Thos ye Son of Joel & Deborah Burrows April 20, 1714 at 
Jamaica. 

Wm Fowler May 11, 1714 at Flushing-. 
Dinah ye Wife of Thos Howel, April 21, 1715 at Jamaica. 
Mary ye Daughter of Thos Howel, July 10, 171 5 at Jamaica. 
James Battersby July 24, 1715 at Flushing. 
Elizabeth ye Wife of James Hazard 8ber 22, 171 5 at Newtown. 
Hannah Peat Feb 4, 1715 at Jamaica. 

Abigail ye Daughter of Thos & Ruth Woolsey April 4, 1716 at 
Jamaica. 

Mary ye Daughter of Richd & Mary Betts, June 14, 17 16 at 
Maspic Kilns. 

Sarah ye Wife of Francis Nicols lober 26, 1716 at her Father's 
at Boswick. 

Johanna ye Daughter of Edward & Johanna Blagg Janry 19, 
1716 at Jamaica. 

Samll Moorm Senr July 27, 171 7 at Newtown. 
Abigail Whitehead Sber 15. 1717 at Jamaica. 

Deborah ye Daughter of Samll & Hannah Smith Feb 15, 1717 
at Springfield. 

William Creed Mar 5, 1717 at Jamaica. 

Margaret ye Wife of Thos Rattoon Ap 26, 1718 at Flushing-. 
William ye Son of Hannah Charles Widow May 10, 1718 at 
Jamaica. 

Jacob ye Son of Samuel & Hannah Dean 7ber 5, 1718 at Jamaica 
Francis ye Wife of Thos Poyer April 15, 1719, at Jamaica 
Charles ye Son of Thos & Sarah Willett 7ber 23, 1719 at Colic 
Willetts. 

James Wilson Aug 27, 1725 at Jamaica. 
Mrs. Bett's Son March 17, 1725 at Maspick Kilns. 
Charity ye Wife of Thos Brown 7ber 25, 1726 at Jamaica. 
Old Mrs. Creed Janry 31, 1726 at Jamaica. 
Thos Wiggins xber 12, 1728 at Jamaica. 
Wm Hallett Aug 20, 1729 at Hell-Gate. 

Nicolas ye Son of George & Catherine Reynolds, Aug- 30, 173 1 
at Jamaica. 

Catherine ye Wife of George Reynolds 7ber 7, 173 1 at Jamaica. 
Jno ye Son of Jno & Catherine Bedford 8ber 18, 1731 at Ja- 
maica. 

Rebecca Wiggins 8ber 19, 1731 at Jamaica. 
Jane Garreson 9ber 28, 1731 at Jamaica. 



VIII 
GRACE CHURCH REGISTERS. 

PRIVATE REGISTER OF 
REV. GILBERT SAYRES, D. D. 



The following registers of Grace Church have been transcribed 
literally without change in phrase, spelling or order. The form 
has also been preserved when possible. They are authentic copies, 
extended to as late a date as seemed proper. H. O. L. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 291 



PARISH REGISTER OF GRACE CHURCH, 

Jamaica, Long Island. 
Grace Church, Jamaica was built in 1733 and 1734 and the 
first time divine service was performed in it was on Friday the 
5th March 1734, when a sermon was preached from Genesis 
xxviii. 16, 17. 

On this occasion the Governor of the province, his lady and 
family "honoured the meeting with their presence, and by their 
very generous benefactions great encouragement was given for 
the finishing of the Church." 

(This information is collected from "The American Weekly 
Mercury," of March 28, 1734, — a newspaper published at 
Philadelphia by Andrew Bradford. 

Timothy Clowes, 
Officiating Minister 
in the year 1810. 

MARRIED. 

1769 June 6th, Cornelius Van Wyck & Sarah Hicks 

1770 Augt 8th, Thoms. Cornell & Elizabeth Thurston 
Septemb 3, John Greenoak & Rebekah Clement 

1771 July 4, George Burling & Abigail Morrell 

1772 Jany 6, Lewis Guion & Elizabeth Hooglandt 
Febr 20, Elbert Hagerman & Mary Smith 
March 30, Willm Deane & Horionter Lattin 
July 3, Thomas Cornell & Ann Gale 

1773 Jany. 6, Stephen Ryder & Margret Mitchell 
Feby 12, Thomas Cornel & Deborah Doughty 

16, Thoms. Roe & Sarah Morrell 
June 4th, Willm Bayley & Sarah Comes 
16, Willm Lowree & Patience Gosline 
July 16, Thos. Durham & Elizabeth Fish 

1774 March 6, Garrit Latting & Sarah Rapelai 

9, Joseph Stringham & Ann Betts 
Sepr 4, Peter McKee & Elizabeth Ogden 
Novr 17, John Cornell & Sarah Rowe 



292 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

1775 Febr 18, Abraham Berrian & Mary Moore 
June 2, Joseph Reade Depeyster & Ann Betts 
April 19 — Joseph Titus & Martha Moore 
June 15, Joseph Roe & Ann Lawrence 
June 24 — Thomas Welling & Susannah Betts 
Octobr 25, Oliver Roe & Margaret Cornell 

1776 Febry 18, Danl. Thorn & Basheba Fowler 

Decemb. 17, Lt. Coll. Thos. James & Margaret Depeyster 

1777 May 4, Lt. George Brown & Mary French 

4, Peter Ryeson & Sarah Welling 

1778 Jany. 8, John Deakin & Jane Berrian 
June 13, John Dunbarr & Aletta Willet 
Sept. 20, Oliver Waters & Jane Talmon 
Octobr 12, John Rider & Greetie Noostrandt 
Decemb 14, James Brundige & Hannah Hunt 

25, Thoms. Fairchild & Elizabeth Vanderwater 

1779 Jany. 19, Henery Disbrow & Abigail Fowler 
March 10, William Waters & Hannah Hallet 

17, Garrit Burling 8z Sarah Smith 
April II, Israel Seaman & Sarah Rowland 

21, Edward Bristow & Mary Doak 
June 17, Henery Nicoll & Alice Willett 
July 4, David Haviland & Mary Tom 
Sept 19, John Danl. & Elizabeth Blank 
Novr 25, Oliver Fowler & Elizabeth Kowe 

1780 April 2, Thoms. Charles Mann & Elizabeth Coon 
May 27, David Moore & Jemima Hallet 

June II, Capt John Meredith & Gertrude Skinner 
Augst 27, William Smith & Letitia — (Incog) 
Novmb 12, John Berger & Miriam Oldfield 

1780 Novr. 19, Matthew Farrington & Phebe McCollum 

19, Heyman Clarke & Hannah Wortman 
19, Jarvis Dobbs & Elizabeth Wortman. 
Decemb. 27,, John Durling & Elizabeth Smith 

1781 Febr. 18, David M. Clerkson & Mary Vanhorne 
Mch 15, Saml. Wiggins & Margret Leister 

21, Danl. Hallet & Charity Moore 
May 20, John McWicker & Ann Moore 
June 2, Jacob Moore & Elizabeth Waters 

17, John Counsley to Rachel Carr 



OF GRACE CHURCH 293 

July 15, James Bonney & Elizabeth Fish 
15, Robert Mills & Hannah Willis 

1782 Jany. 29, Thorns. Durling & Mary Hall 

April 27, Jechoniah Holcomb of ye City of New York & 

Ruth Sealy, of Eatons Neck 
May 12, John Willet & Mary Nostrand both of Flushing- 
May 23, Joseph M. Moore & Sarah Bay, both of Newtown 
June 9th, Charles Saltman Sergt of ye 70th Regt. & Mary 

Adams, of Jamaica 
Augt 22, Willm Seaman & Ann Fowler 
Octob. 12, Robt Lawrence & Mary Lawrence both of 

Flushing. 
Nov. 3, David Lawrence & Sarah Fowler both of Flush- 
ing 
Decemb. 12, Nathan Bouton of Huntingdon & Abigail Bur- 

tock of Loyds Neck 
14, James Smith, Lt. in ye 79th Regt & Mary 

Devine of Queens County 
14, Peter Ball, elk of ye Hospital & Charity Lot of 

Flatbush in Kings County 

1783 Jany. 5, James Horton & Anna Styne both of Jamaica 
March 16, James Mceuen, Soldier of ye 3rd Batln of Delan- 

ceys Brigade & Seaman of Flushing. 

26, Joshua Garrett Ensign of ye Kings Florida 
Rangers & Vashte Carr of Oyster Bay 
May 4, Abm Rew, soldier in Coll. Robinsons Regt. & Mary 
Clay of Flushing. 
18, David Roe & Juliane Fowler Both of Flushing 

18, Florence Sullivan of the City of New York & 

Margraet Lafifan of Jamaica 
June 19, David Hallett, of Hellgate, & Elizabeth Gedney 
of Newtown 

19, Nathanell Moore & Martha Gedney both of New- 

town. 

July 21, Henery Knipschild of New York & Pamela Haz- 
ard of Newtown. 

Augt. 10, James Creighton & Mary Ogden Both of Jamaica 
31, Willm Dawson of New York & Lydia Hallett of 
Newtown 



294 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Sept. 5, Richd Harrison of New York & Frances Ludlow 
of Hempstead 
7, Benjam Piatt of Hempstead & Hannah Whaley 

of the same place 
14, James Cotter, Soldr in ye 57th Regt. & Margraet 
McClean 
Novmb. 3, Thom. Martin Palmer untr to Admirl Digby & 
Catharine McEvers of Jamaica 
23, Bernard Rapaley of Flushing & Deborah Ged- 
ney of Newtown 

1784 Jany 22, John Charlton Donghan of Staten Island & Pa- 

tience More of Newtown 

Febry. 7, David Rowland & Aidy Shutphen Both of Flush- 
ing 

March 8, Stephen Hallett & Rebekah Moore Both of New- 
town 
29, Francis Dashwood of Jamaica in West Indies & 

Mary Ludlow of Hempstead 
29, Gillon Verplank & Cornelia Johnson Both of 
New York 

April 28, Capt. Danl. Williams & Mary Hunt both of 
Westchester 

Augst 26, Willm Waynman & Hannah James Both of New 
York 

Septemr 30, David Purdy & Mary Rapalaie Both of New 
Town 

1785 Septeme. 12, Saml. Thorn of New York & Sarah Van 

Wyck of East Woods in Hempstead 
22, David Chapman of Anapolis in Nova Scotia 
& Elizabeth Doughty of Jamaica, L. Island 
Sept. 27, James Pettit & Abigail Doughty Both of Newtown 
Octr. 30, Thoms Kelly & Elizabeth Vanpelt Both of Flushing 
Jabez Corbine & Mary Lawrence Both of Flushing 
Danl. Derbyshire & Isabell Marston Both of Flushing. 
Novr. 16, John Griffiths of the City of New York & Ann 
Betts of Jamaica 

1786 May 21, Augustine Field & Mary Cornell Both of Flushing 
Augst 13, James Boyd of Westchester & Letitia Farring- 

ton of Flushing: 



OF GRACE CHURCH 295 

Octobr 8, Robt Hunt & Ann Way Both of New Town 

28, Saml. Goodwin of N. York & Juda Hallet of 
New Town 
Novr 9, Saml. Sacket of New York & Elizabeth Kissam 

of Flushing 
Decemr. 13, Saml Hopper & Mary Willms Both of New- 
town 
17, Rob. Crommelin & Mary Willoughby Both of 

Flushing 
27, Richd Way & Sarah Hyatt Both of Netown 

1787 May 27 Benjm Lawrence & Hannah Carpenter Both of 

Flushing 
Decemr i, John Tatford & Charity Hendrickson Both of 

Jamaica 
Dec. 30, John Troup & Sarah Hammersly Both of Jamaica 

1788 March 13, Dr. John Onderdonk of New York & Deborah 

Ustick of Flushing 
April 10, Willm Wilkins of New York & Ann Thorn of 

Flushing 
May 12, John Dunn & Deborah Miller Both of Flushing 
31, Dr. Richd Lawrence & Mary Moore Both of New- 
town 
Octob 26, Benjm Drake & Phebe Birchell Both of Eastchester 
Novem. 16, Thomas Hunt of Eastchester & Elizabeth 
Field of Flushing 

1789 Jany 10, Charles McDaud & Sarah Betts Both of Jamaica 

18, John Hicks of Flushing & Sarah Titus of New- 
town 

March 28, Cornelius Creed of Jamaica & Rachel Hyatt of 
Newtown 

May 18 (or 19), John Gosling & Sarah Paul Both of New- 
town 

Octob II, George Reed & Ann Hardy Both of N. York 

Octobr 13, Jacob Ogden & Mary Depeyster Both of Ja- 
maica. 

Nov. 29, John Evers of New York & Susanna Titus of 
Newtown 



296 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



BAPTIZED 

1780 June 15, Beloyal Livingston Son of Phillip Livingston 

2, Thomas Amberman, A Negro Slave 

1781 March 12, Thomas Duncan, Son of Danl. & Arabella 

Ludlow 
29, Margraet Willett, daughter of John & Ann 
Waters 
April I, Elizabeth daughter of Jabez & Mary Hustead 

13, Martha daughter of Stephen Wiggins 
May 4, Isaac, John, Esther, Joseph (May 7), Clara, Aletta, 
Sarah, Sons and daughters of Jonathn & Mary 
Anderson 
4, Jeremiah, Son of Willm & Elizabeth Anderson 
6, Mary daughter of Peter & Ann Berton 

20, Harriet daughter of Josiah & Anna Pomeroy 
July 22, Mary daughter of Jarvis & Elizabeth Dobbs 
Augst 10, Ann daughter of Thom & Catherine Clout 
Sept 2, Ann Payne daughter of Gerard & Sarah Beekman 

9, James Jervis son of Thomas & Joanna Ganong 
13, John & Nicholas sons of Nicholas Jones 
16, Elizabeth daughter of John & Aletta Dunbar 

21, Douwe, son of Douwe & Catherine Ditmus 
Octobr 5, Catherine Betts daughter of Thorns & Susanna 

Welling 

25, Ann Prichard daughter of Anthony & Phebe 
Terrill 

Decemb. 6, Thorns, son of Isaac & Isabella Wilkins 

26, Aletta daughter of Willm & Aletta Vaughn 

1782 Janry 6, Addison son of Heman & Hannah Clarke 

8, Thomas Howel son of Thoms & Margraet Smith 

9, Mary daughter of Thoms. & Margraet Smith 
20, Sarah daughter of Thoms & Smith 

Joseph son of Joseph & Sarah Ely 
Feb. 6, Sarah daughter of Nathaniel & Johanna Moore 
March 21, Elizabeth Chaning daur of Revd. Thoms & 
Judah Moore 
31, Phebe daughter of John & Miriam Burger 
April 7, James son of Phillip & Susanna Herny 

9, Eugenia daughter of David & Mary Haviland 



OF GRACE CHURCH 297 

May 5, George son of James & Elizabeth Bonney 
7, John Halstead son of John & Ann Waters 
June 2, Abrahm. & Nathanl. More sons of Abm & Mary 

Denio 
Augt 17, John Dunbarr — an adult 

18, Mary the daughter of John & Margrt. Houlroyd 
Sept 15, Stephen son of Simon & Margaret Wiggins 
Octobr 22, Hannah, Mary, Saml, children of Isaac & Mary 
Pettit 
23, Catharine daughter of Danl. & Catharine- 
Whitehead 
Decemr 6, James Henr}^ son of John & Sophia McDonald 

1783 Jany 19, Nathan Fish son of Willm & Jane Moore 

23, Ann daughter of Elihu & Ann Hume 
Feb. 2, Gilbert, son of Henry & Elizabeth Dawson 
May 18, Margraet Willett, Sarah Willett, daughters of 

James & Sarah Morrell 
June 25, Marinus Willett son of Willm & Aletta Vaughn 
July 25, Agnes Betts daughter of John & Ann Waters 
July 27, Peter son of Thomas & Elizabeth Fairchild 
27, Balthus, son of Stephen & Esther Delancey 
Septembr 7, Frances daughter of Daniel & Arabella Ludu- 
low 
John son of Heman & Hannah Clark 
Ann Dashwood daughter of Francis & Eliza- 
beth Lewis 
Novemb 9, Elizabeth daughter of Thoms & Elizabeth Cor- 
nell 

1784 Janry 5, Lucretia Wiggins, an Adult 

Richard Wiggins, an Adult 
Mary daughter of Richd & Ann Wiggins 
18, Willm son of Willm & Jane Roarden 
March 27, Ann daughter of John Carpenter 
Sep. 5, Ann daughter of John & Mary Hincksman 

Saml. Gregson son of Saml. & Mary Turner, late 
of Chancy Lane in the Parish of St. Andrew 
Holborn in the County of Middlesex, London. 

1785 Janr 10 Thoms. Colgan son of Danl. & Cathanne White- 

head 
II, Catherine daughter of Danl & Mary Kissam 



298 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

14, Benjamin son of Jacob & Elizabeth Moore 
May 22, Thorns, son of Richd & Abigail Alsop 
June 5, Charles the son of John & Margraet Houlroyd 
June 10, James son of Stephen & Rebekah Hallett 

10, John son of Isaac & Susannah Begaw 
July 3, Mary, wife of Jonthn Strictland, an Adult 

3, Richard Lawrence, son of Jonthn & Mary Strict- 
land 
October 2, Augustus, son of d 

Novemr 13, Richd son of Charles & Welling 

20, Eloisa daughter of Francis & Elizabeth Lewis 
27, Cornelius Rapalay son of David & Mary 
Purdy 

1786 Jany. 15, Aletta, daughter of John & Ann Waters 

15, Frederick son of John & Sarah Polhemus 

May 20, Hannah Waynman, an adult 

20, Benjn son of Joseph & Lydia Burrows 

20, Ann, daughter of Willm & Hannah Waynman 

Sept. 5, Willm David, son of David & Patience Titus 

1787 Jany i, Edward Bardin, son of Danl & Catharine White- 

head 
June 17, Elizabeth, daughter of John & Margraet Holroyd 
June 24, Susannah daughter of Isaac & Susannah Begaw 
July 15, John, William, Thomas, Christopher, children, 
Sons of Blakeney & Catherine Bouchica of Ja- 
maica 
Aug. 19, Gabriel Ludlow son of Francis & Elizabeth Lewis 
Octobr. I, John Shoals, son of Jacob & Elizabeth Moore 

28, Susannah Betts, An Adult 
Novembr 3, Ann Smith An Adult 

Danl. Thorn, son of Hutchins & Ann Smith 

1788 Janry i, John George, & Elizabeth Mary, children of 

6, George Baker, An Adult 
25, Jonathan Underbill, An Adult 

Sarah, Hannah, Willm, Mary, Ann, Children of 

Jonathan & Hannah Underbill 

27, Maria Ann, daughter of Saml & Ann Brownjohn 

Feby i, Sarah, An Adult, the wife of Cornelius Hyatt, — 

and also Sarah, Thomas & Anna, their children 



OF GRACE CHURCH 299 

May 25, At Jamaica was baptized by the Revd Thomas 
Moore, Mary, Daughter of John & Charity 
Thatford, also Elizabeth, Daughter of George 
& Hannah Baker Enterred by the request of 
Mr Moore Wni Hammell 
Febr 7, Jane, the daughter of Oliver & Catherine Tem- 
pleton 
14, Jane, the daughter of Hulett & Charlotte Creed 
17, Jane, the daughter of Richd & Ann Wiggins 
March 2, Cornelius, the son of David & Mary Purdy 

9, John Vanpelt, son of Thoms & Elizabeth Kelly 
April 13, Willm. son of Isaac & Mary Pettit 

27, Hetecha, daughter of Jonathan & Rebekah Jones 
Anno 

1788 June 22, Sarah, daughter of Isaac & Rhoda Hewlett 

22, Joseph Roe, of Flushing, An Adult 

22, Fanny, daughter of James & Sarah Morrell 

22, John & Sarah, Children of John & Elizabeth V. 

V^oorhoes 
29, Frances, Deborah Smith, Sarah, Hannah, Waters 
Smith, Richard, Stephen, Field — All Adults 
July 27, John — the son of Saml Eldert of Jamaica 
Augst 15, Sarah, daughter of Willm & Hannah Waynman 
Novr. 30, Elizabeth, daughter of John & Sarah Troup 

1789 March ye 23, Richd Morrell, An Adult 

Sept. 13, Thomas, son of Saml. & Ann Brownjohn 
Novembr 29, Charlotte, the daughter of John & Sarah 
Hicks 

1790 May 2, Willm James, the son of Willm & Hannah Wayn- 

man 
16, John, the son of Willm & Mary Aspinwall 
23, Jane, the daughter of Hulett & Charlotte Creed 
30, Levinah, the daughter of David & Mary Purdy 
30, Nelly, the daughter of Isaac & Susannah Begaw 



HI 



300 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



REGISTER OF MARRIAGES AND BAPTISMS 

For the Congregations of Grace Church, Jamaica, of St James 
Church, New-Town, and St. George's Church, Flushing — Con- 
tinued 

To which is annexed the names of those who are Communi- 
cants in the Church, and of such who altho' not in Communion, 
yet belong to the Congregations. 

Wm. Hammell, Rect. 

Grace Church was rebuilt Anno. Domi. 1821-1822 and was 
consecrated to the Service of Almighty God by the Rt. Revd. 
Bishop Hobart, Monday 15th July 1822. Gilbert H. Sayres, 
Rector and Lewis E. A. Eigenbrodt & Timothy Nostrand, War- 
dens. 

COMMUNICANTS 

IN THE SEVERAL CHURCHES OF JAMAICA, NEW TOWN AND FLUSHING. 

Time when V*) : 

. ^ T • received 

At Jamaica . .;. 

m ^ 

Anno 

Christopher Smith 1791 

Mary Smith 

James D Peyster 

Sarah D. Peyster 

Ann D. Peyster 

Sarah D. Peyster 

James McKrell 

Millar McKrell 

Ann Betts 

Ann R D Peyster 

Jacob Van Pelt 

John Dudley 

Aletta Warne 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



301 



Aaron Van Nostrand 




James Morrell ) 


Octob i6 


Sarah Morrell ) 




Isaac Pettit ) 


Dec 25 


Mary Pettit ) 




Catharine Hammell 


April 8 


John Dunn 


— 


Deborah Dunn 


May 27 




Time when 


At New Town 


received 
in 




Anno 


Sarah Moore 


1791 



John Moore 
David Titus 
Mary Renny 
Abigail Alsop 
Charles Roach 
Elizabeth Roach 
Lydia Burroughs 
James Bonney 
Joseph Morrel 
Johanna Moore 
Patience Lawrence 
Ann Fish 
John Waters 
Mary Kippen 
John Moore, Jnr 
Elizabeth Fish 
Fanny Whitehead 
Juda Roosevelt 
Susanna Betts 
Mary Sticklin 
Benjamin Buckbee 
Elizabeth Alsop 

Susanna Bergau 
Wood red 



May 8 
Octobr 9 

Anno 1792 
Jan 7, 8 
June 10 



302 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 







1793 


Elizabeth Hazard 




April I 
1794 


Mary Lawrence 




June 22 

Time when 
received 


At Flushing- 




in 
Anno 


Elizabeth Ludlow 




1791 


William Ustick 






Susanna Ustick 






Susanna Ustick 






Jane Ustick 






Ann Ustick 






Thos Fairchild 






Miss Fanny Moore 


) 


Octob. 2 


Thos. Reid 


) 




Elizabeth Reid 




Do 

1792 


Rebecca Aspinwall 




June 3 


Garret Beeckman 




Decbr. 30 


Bathsheba Thorn 


) 


1793 


Ann Smith 


) 


Sep. 29 


MARRIAGES 






Anno 1790 Septembr 15th, Married, Mr. Richard Piatt of New 
York, and Sarah Aspinwall of Flushing. 
Octobr 31st, Married, Thomas Billup, of New York and 
Abigail Moore of New Town 
Anno 1791 Jany. loth, Married, John Grigg, and Maria Pell, 
both of New York 
Nov. 17th, Peter Rosevelt and Judith Godwin, both of New 

Town 
Decembr 15th, Peter Vandervoort, and Anna Burroughs 
both of New Town 
Anno 1792 March ist, Josep Sealy, of the Little Plains, and 
Bonnella Welling, of Jamaica 



OF GRACE CHURCH 303 

April loth, Monson Hayt, late of New Bronnswick, Nova 

Scotia, and Lucretia Hamersly, of Jamaica, 

Long Island 
Anno 1792 June 14th, Richard Hartshorn, of New York and 

Susanna Ustick, of Flushing 
July 7th, William McKrell, and Sarah Tatford both of 

Jamaica 
Henry Waterbury of New York, and Margaret 

Tatford of Jamaica 
Sepr 13th, Timothy Roach, of New Town and Sarah 

Hallet, of St. Johns, New Bromswick, Nova 

Scotia 
Octobr 14th, Timothy Way, and Hannah Buckbee, both 

of New Town 
Novbr. 25th, John Evans, and Susanna Betts both of New 

Town 
Decbr 13, Abraham Ditmus & Harriet Doughty, both of 

Jamaica 

Wm Hammell, Rectr 

1793 April 17th, Married John Mitchel, and Jane Hewlet both 

of North Hemstead 
September 5th, Anthony Barckley, and Anna Lent, both 

of New Town 
November 3rd. Joseph Caldwell of New York and Sarah 

Moore, of Brooklyn 

1794 January 2nd, James Sprouls, and Elizabeth Durling, both 

Jamaica South 

February 4th. Married, Abraham Beriyan, and Pellatia 
Williams, both of New Town 

February 5th, Married Stephen Hicks & Mary Carpenter 
both of Jamaica 

February 26th, Married Henry Beadel, and Nelly Wood- 
red, both of Bushwick 

April ist, Married Robert Crommelin, of New York, and 
Ann De Peyster, of Jamaica 

November 8th, Married Charles Simmons, and Abigail 
Fowler, both of Flushing 

1795 March 15th, Married, Richard Brinkerhoof, and Rebecca 

Berian, both of New Town 



304 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

June nth, Married William Hartshorn, of New York, and 

Jane Ustick, of Flushing 
June 14th, Married Basil J. Bartow, and Elizabeth Ann 

Honeywell, both of Westchester 

Wm Hammell, Rectr 

1795 Novbr 8th, Thomas Durling, and Nancy Farington both 

of New Town 
Novbr 15th, Frederick Field, and Margaret Lowistoth of 
Flushing 

1796 February 29, 1796 by Revd Mr. Seabury John I. Morgan, 

and Catharine Warne 
Married by Elijah D. Rattoone, Rector of Grace Church, 

Jamaica 
William Richarson to Eliza Barden the former of New 
York — the latter of Jamaica on the 24th day of March 
A. D. 1798 

Andrew Napier to Catherine Welling the former of New 
York — the latter of Jamaica, Sept. 29, 1800 
Susan Woolley to William Dodge June i6th 1799. Wit- 
nesses, Tristram Dodge & John Hicks Junr 
Married in New York January loth 1810 James Arm- 
strong to Sarah Bond, both of the Island of Jamaica, 
W. I. 

Timothy Clowes, Minister of Grace Church 

BAPTISMS 

Anno 1790 Jamaica 

Augst 1st, Baptized William, son of William & Martha 
Smith 
26, was baptized by Rev. Tho. Moore, James De- 
peyster, son of Jacob & Mary Ogden 
Jamaica Octobr loth. Baptized William, Hannah, Ann & Mar- 
garet Waters, Adults 
Nov. 8th, Hallets Cove, New Town, Nov. 8th Baptized 
Edward Greenoak. Sarah Greenoak, Sarah Law- 
rence, Elizabeth Lawrence, Elizabeth Greenbak, 
Martha Hare, Elizabeth Dalton, Mary Hallet, 
Samuel Hare, Nathaniel Greenoak, Benjamin 
Hallet, Adults 



OF GRACE CHURCH 3o5 

1790 Nov. 8th, Maria, daughter of Joseph and Mary Hallet 
David Titus, son of Edward and Sarah Greenoak. 
David Titus, Godfather 

Nathaniel Greenoak, son of Malancthon & Sarah 
Lawrence, Nathaniel Greenoak, Godfather. 
Deborah Greenoak, daughter of Melancthon & 
Sarah Lawrence. John Greenoak, Godfather 
Maria, daughter of Malancthon & Sarah Lawrence. 
David Titus, Godfather 

Rebecca Moore, Lydia and Nathaniel Moore, chil- 
dren of Stephen & Rebecca Hallet 
Richard, son of Edward and Sarah Greenoak. 
Rich Hallet, Godfather 

1790 

Jamaica Nov. 22nd, Baptized Isaac, son of Isaac and Rhoda 
Hewlett 
28, Baptized Anna, daughter of John and Charity Thatford 

Anno 1 79 1 

Feby. i6th, Jamaica Baptized Sarah, daughter of Isaac & Mary 
Pettit 

Feby 27th, Baptized Samuel, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Sacket 

March 9th, John, son of John and Sarah Troup 

Jamaica March 13th, Benjamin Daniel, son of Samuel and Eliza- 
beth Welling N. B. Benjamin Tanner, was In- 
tended 

Baptized Jamaica March 23, William, son of John and Mary 
Hinckman 

New Town, March 27th, Nathaniel Kenney, an Adult 

Flushing, May 9th, Daniel Thorn, his wife Bathsheba Thorn 
and Mary Thorn, their daughter, Adults 

Flushing, May 22, Elizabeth Van Pelt, daughter of Thomas and 
Elizabeth Kelly 

New Town June 26th, Catharine daughter of Morris & Cathar- 
ine Hazzard 

Flushing July loth, Elena, an adult, wife of James Allen, of New 
York, Clarissa & James, children of James & Elena 
Allen Fairchild and their mother. Sponsors 
Isaac, son of Richard and Peck 

Baptized at Flushing, July i6th, Mary, daughter of Daniel and 
Mary Kissam 



306 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

New Town, Augst 17th, Sally Fish, daughter of John and Ann 
Waters. Mrs Waters and Mrs. Burris answered for 

Jamaica, Augst 14th, Thomas Willett, son of Daniel and Cath- 
arine Whitehead 

Newtown Augst 15th, Mrs. Nancy Buckbee, an Adult 

Abigail, Hannah & Benjamin, children of Benjamin 
and Nancy Buckbee 

Flushing Augst i8th. Patience Susanna, daughter of John and 
Sarah Hicks David Titus and Susanna Evers, 
Sponsors 

Jamaica, Septembr 25th, Mary, daughter of Susanna Van Pelt 
Sponsors, her father Jacob Van Pelt and her sister 
Mary V. Pelt 

Kendel & Alexander, children of John and Deborah 
Dunn 

Flushing, Octobr 2nd, Mrs Anna Roe, Lawrence Roe. Miss 
Betsy Roe, and Ann Cornell, Adults 
Martha, William, Richard, Samuel, Abraham. Isaac, 
children of William & Martha Lowree 

Nov. 13th, Catherine and Sarah, Children of Wm & Catharine 
Weaver 

New Town, Nov. 20th, Sarah, daugtr of Benjamin and Nancy 
Buckbee 

Jamaica, Nov. 29th, Margaret, daughter of William and Martha 
Puntine 

New Town, Dec. 26th, John, son of James and Elizabeth Moore 

Anno 1792 

New Town Jany 20, Sarah Tompkins, Hannah Buckbee, Adults 
Edward & John, children of Joseph & Sarah Tomp- 
kins 

Flushing Jany. 22nd, John Hutchins, son of John Hutchins & 
Anna Smith 

Jamaica, Jany. 29th, Anna & Roloef Duryee, Junior, children of 
Richard and Anna Wiggins 

Jamaica, Feby. 15th, Eliza, daughter of John and Catharine 
Hinckman 

New Town, March nth, Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Jonathan 
and Hannah Underbill 

Flushing Marh 22nd, Cecelia Gold, daughter of Francis & Eliza- 
beth Lewis 



OF GRACE CHURCH 307 

Jamaica, April 4th, Elizabeth, daug-hter of Hulett and Charlotte 
Creed 

Jamaica, April 6th, Maria, daughter of Samuel and Catalina El- 
dred 

Newtown, April 24th, George, son of Daniel and Ellen Rapelye 

May 28, Thomas, Anna, Samuel Hallet, Joseph & David, Chil- 
dren of David and Jemima Moore 

Hallets Cove, June 4th, Lydia, daughter of Joseph and Mary 
Hallet 

Mary Bergam, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca 
Hallet N. B. Rebecca Bergan stood Sponsor with 
the Parents 

Jamaica, June 24th, James Henry, son of John and Elizabeth 
V. Voorhase 

Hallets Cove, Augst 15th, Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac & Sus- 
anna Bergan 

Jamaica, Sept. 30th, Obadiah Paul, son of Obadiah & Sarah 
Leach. Sponsors, Abraham Probasco and the 
mother 

Jamaica, Oct 21st, William Henry, son of William and Cathar- 
ine Hammell. Sponsors, John Hammell, John Grigg 
and Hannah Hammell 

New Town, Novbr 25th, David, son of David and Mary Purdy 

Jamaica, Dec 23rd, Jane, daughter of Joseph and Mary Yandle 
Jenne, daughter of Isaac and Mary Pettit 

Jamaica Dec. 15th, William Betts, son of Charles and Sarah 
McDavid 

Nathaniel Lewis, son of Nathaniel & Elizabeth 
Betts. N. B. The above ought to have been inserted 
before the two last Baptisms. 

Anno 1793 

Jamaica, March 17th, Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth 
Welling The Parents and Sarah Polhemus, Spon- 
sors 

Flushing, April 28th, William Simmonds, an Adult 

At Jamaica, in the Evening, Joanna Smith, daughter of Monson 
& Lucretia Hayt. Christopher and Mary Smith, 
Sponsors 

Jamaica, May 12th, Martha, daughter of William & Sarah 
McKrell 



308 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

New Town, June 2nd, Ann Lewis, daughter of Charles & Sarah 
McDavid 

Jamaica, June 9th, Martha Prien, daughter of John & Charity 
Thatford 

New Town, July 14th, Thomas, son of Thomas and Susanna 
Haight 

Jamaica, July 21st, Robert, son of John and Sarah Troup 

Flushing, July 28th, William Lawrence & David, his son. Adults 

New Town, July 30th, Mary Lawrence, daughter of Thomas 
& Abigail Billup Dr. Richard Lawrence, as Proxy 
for the Father. The Mother and Mrs. Mary Law- 
rence, Sponsors 

Jamaica, Sep ist, Eldred, son of Samuel and Catalina Eldred 

New Town, Sep. 15, Judith Rosevelt, daughter of Timothy & 
Sarah Roach Sponsors, Mrs. Rosevelt, and the 
Parents 

Flushing, Septr 29th, Thomas, son of Wm and Eve Hannahs 

Flushing, Octobr 23rd, Abby Morrel, Elizabeth Burling, John 
Morrel, Sarah Morrel, Adults 

New Town, Octobr 27th, Catharine, daughter of Moris & Cath- 
arine Hazzard 

Flushing, Novbr 19th, Clarissa Rodman, an Adult 

Horatio Gates, son of Francis and Elizabeth Lewis 

Decb 1st, Mary Fowler, Jane Fowler, Margaret Roe, Adults 

Thomas Roe, Nathaniel Roe, Gilbert Roe, Benja- 
min Roe, Silas Roe, Eliza Roe, Ann Roe, Children 
of Joseph and Ann Roe 

At the same time Elizabeth & John, Children of 
Garret and Cornelia Nostrant 

Jamaica, Dec. 15th, Mary Ann, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza- 
beth Betts The Mother, John & Mary Dudley, 
Sponsors 

New Town, Dec. 29th, Nathaniel, son of William and Elizabeth 
Betts 

1794 

Flushing, Feby 2, Baptized Thomas, son of John & Sarah Hicks 

Sponsors, David Titus, Thomas Hicks, and the 

mother 
Jamaica, Feby 5th, Baptized Eleanor, daughter of John & Mary 

Hincksman 



OF GRACE CHURCH 309 

Newtown, Feby 9th, Baptized Elizabeth, daughter of Henry 
& Winifred Van Allen 

Wm Hammell, Rectr. 

Jamaica, Feby. 26th, Baptized Sarah, daughter of Hulett & 
Charlotte Creed 

New Town, March 2nd, Baptized Anna Catharine, daughter of 
Daniel & Ellen Rapelye 
23rd, Baptized Gilbert, son of Joseph & Sarah Tomp- 
kins 

Jamaica, April 2nd, Baptized John, son of John West & Jane 
Welling 

New Town, May 4th, Baptized Elizabeth, daughter of Edward 
& Sarah Greenoak 

Newtown, June 15, Baptized Patience, daughter of David & Je- 
mima Moore 

Baptized also Henry, son of Anthony & Anna 
Barkley The Parents & Peter Rosevelt, Sponsors. 

Newtown, June 22nd, Baptized Lydia, daughter of John & Mar- 
tha Burroughs 

Jamaica, June 29, Baptized Charles, son of Joseph & Bonnella 
Sealy 

Flushing, on same day Baptized William, son of John Hutchins 
& Anna Smith 

New Town, Sep. 14th, Baptized Margaret, daughter of David 
& Eunice Van Wickly 

Wm Hammell, Rectr 

Jamaica, Decbr. 9th, Baptized Robert & George Benjamin, chil- 
dren of Charles & Sarah McNeile 

1795 

New Town, Jany 21st, Agreeable to my Consent in a note from 

Mr. Richard Wiggins, The Revd. Mr Sands Bap- 
tized his child by the name of Richard, on the i6th 
of October last 
Newtown, March 15th, Baptized John, son of David & Mary 
Purdy 

Joseph Woodred, son of Henry & Nelly Beadel, 
Abrm Duryee, the Father, and Mrs. Woodred 
sponsors 
Richard Betts, son of John & Ann Waters 



310 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Newtown, April 6th, Frances, daughter of Thomas & Abigail 

Billup 
Jamaica, April 7th, Baptized Stephen Hicks, an Adult and Maria, 

daughter of Stephen & Mary Hicks 
Flushing, May 14th, Baptized Ann Louisa, daughter of John & 

Sarah Hicks The mother, Samuel Titus, and Elias 

Hicks sponsors 
Jamaica, May 25th, Baptized John Tanner, son of Samuel & 

Elizabeth Welling 

1795 

New Town, Feby. 22, Baptized George an Adult belonging to 
Peter Culver of Bushwick, & Diana, daughter of 
the above & Jane belongs to Peter Duryee 

New Town, June 7th, Baptized James, son of James, a Freeman 
& Diana belongs to Mr. Devoise, at Fresh pond 

Jamaica, February ist, 1796, By the Rev Chs Seabury, Thomas 
Colgan, son of John & Sarah Troup 

Musqueto Cove, Feby 24th, 1796 Daniel Whitehead & Maria, 
children of Daniel W. and Elizabeth Kissam 

Jamaica, Augt 21st, 1796, By the Revd Mr Elias Cooper, of 
Philipseburgh baptized Mary Ann, grand daughter 
of John & Mary Hinckman son of said John & 
Mary, who where the God Father & Mother 
Leana, daughter of John West Welling, and Jenny, 
his wife 

Mary, daughter of Joseph & Cathae Thatford 
Sarah Eliza, daughter of John & Eliza Battin 

Octob 9th, Baptized by the Revd Mr. Samuel Haskill of Peeks- 
kill, William, son of John & Charity Thatford 

Dec. 25th, Baptized by the Rev. Mr. Ratoone, of New York. 
Mary, daughter of John & Cathe Hinchman 

1797 

Jany 2, Baptized by the Revd. Mr Van Dyck, of New Town 
John Smith, son of James and Margaret MackreJ 

March i6th, Baptized, by the Revd. Mr. Raynor of Elizabeth 
Town Geo : Hulet, son of Hulet & Charlotte Creed 
Stephen, son of Stephen & Mary Hicks, Sponsors, 
the Father & Mr. Carpenter, the Grandmother 

At Jamaica, By the Rev. Mr. E. D. Ratoone, of N. Y. 

April 14th, Thomas, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Welling 



OF GRACE CHURCH 311 

June 25th, Robert, son of Joseph & Bonnella Sealy — born 
Augt 19th, Ann, born 17 March 1792, daughter of Willm & 

Martha Puntine 

Mary, born March 20, 1795 daughter of Willm 

& Martha Puntine 

Henry, born Jany 20, 1797 son of Willm & Martha 

Puntine Father & Mother, Sponsors. 
By the Revd Dr. Beach 

Sept — , Henry, born ; son of Samuel and Eldert 

By the Revd. Mr Ratoone 

Dec. 25th, John, born Augt. 3d, 1797, son of John & Elizabeth 

Brown The Father & Mother were the Sponsors 
By the Revd. Mr Ratoone at Amboy 
1801 
Augt. 6th, Ruth, daughter of William & Margaret Smith, aged 

31, wife of Joseph Marsh, of Perth Amboy. 

Edmund Bainbridge, aged 27, on the 22 of April 

1802 
Baptisms by the Revd. E. D. Rattoone, Rector of Grace Church, 

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314 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

COPY OF CALVAN WHITE MEMDM FOUND IN YE 

BOOK 

1803, Married Peter Pilyoun to Ann Hinchman 
1803, Octobr, Robert Degruske to Fanny Morrell 

BAPTIZED 

1803, Alexander, son of John & Sarah Troups, and sarvent girle 

Silve 
Matilda, daughter of John & Pheba Welling 
Elizabeth, ditto Joseph & Penela Sealy 
Eliza, ditto Richard & Deborah Van Dam 

Sarah, ditto William & Puntine 

Meriamen ditto of Nemiah & Elizth Simonson 

1804, Alex. Hamilton, (son) of Geo: & Mary Codwise 

BURIED 

1803, Catharine, Wife of John Hinchman 
Wife of William Puntine 

Miss Eve Depeyster Wife of John Skidmore 
Widw Skinner, mother of Abra : Skinner, Esq 
Elizabeth, daughter of Josiah & Elizh Brown 

1804, April 7th, Mary the wife of Christopher Smith Buried 

at New York 
Oliver, son of Charles & Sarah McNiel 

GRACE CHURCH, JAMAICA, L. I. BY GEO. STREBECK. 

1805, May 12, Baptized Caroline daughter of John and Charity 

Thatford. She was born the 25 April 1805 ; and presented 
to Baptism by the Parents. 

July 21, Baptized Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen and Mary 
Hicks. She was born 19 Feby 1805, and presented to Bap- 
tism by Parents. 

Same day. Baptized Sarah Phebe, daughter of Daniel and Eliza- 
beth Remsen : She was born the 16 March 1804 and pre- 
sented to Baptism by her mother and Jane Bright her 
grandmother. 

August 18, Baptized, Mary, daughter of Hezekiah & Maria Free- 
man. She was born the 8th of Jany' 1804, and presented to 
Baptism by James Morrell & her mother 



OF GRACE CHURCH 3l5 

Same day, Baptized Marian, born Novr. 5, 1798 and Eliza, born 
20 Novr 1803, both daughters of John & EHzabeth Voor- 
heis, presented to Baptism by James Morrell & his wife 

September 8, Baptized Isaac, son of Jerimiah & Elizabeth Sy- 
monson (of Staten Island) he was born the 30 April 
1804, and presented to Baptism by his Parents 

Sep. 15, Baptized George Ireland, son of Joseph & Penella 
Sealy born 28 of August 1805, and presented to Baptism 
by his Parents 

October 13, Baptized Stephen Lott, son of Timothy & Catharine 
Nostrandt, he was born 31st of Augt 1805, and presented 
to Baptism by his Parents 

BAPTIZED BY ANDREW FOWLER 

1806 June 22, Theodore Octavius, son of George and Mary 
Codwise, Sponsors, David and Jane Codwise 

July 6, Samuel Welling, son of 

20, Mary, daughter of Thomas, a black man then with Mr. 
Mills and his wife Elizabeth, Parents, Sponsors 

August 17, James, son of Andrew and Catharine Napier. Par- 
ents, Sponsors. James was born June 16. i8c6 
21, Townsend & Samuel, sons of John Hewlett, Junr. and 
Mary his wife Townsend was born 

Oct. 5, Margaret Addra Ann, daughter of Peter Poillon and Ad- 
dra his wife. This child was born the 21st day of the 
preceeding April. 

GRACE CHURCH, JAMAICA, L. I. REVD E. D. BARRY, 
OFFICIATING MINISTER 

1808 Baptized, Jany loth 1808 by Revd Edmund D Barry. Dan- 
iel Tuttle, son of John & Margaret Mackarel, born i8th 
January 1808 

Baptized, July 17th 1808, by Revd E. D. Barry, Daniel Edward, 
son of William & Ann Sale, born 24th April 1808 

Same day. Baptized Anna Maria daughter of George & Mary 
Codwise, born 28th February 1808 

Baptized, August 14th 1808 by the Revd Mr Harris Thomas 
Pelham, son of William & Alice McNiel, born i6th June 
1808 



316 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Baptized, August 14th 1808 by the Revd Mr Harris Thomas 
Pelham, son of William & Alice McNiel, born i6th June 
1808 

Baptized October 9, 1808 by Revd. Mr Barry Sarah Rowland, 
wife of Jonathan Rowland 

Same day Baptized Alice Bannister, daughter of John & Glor- 
iana Welling born 7th May 1804 Baptized Margaret Her- 
riman daughter of John & Gloriana Welling, born 17th 
February 1806 

Baptized Novr 6 1808 by the Revd Mr Barry Talman James 
Waters, born 30th June 1792, also Elizabeth Cebra Waters 
born 4th May 1795. Adults 

Baptized Nov. 12th 1808, by Revd Mr. E. D. Barry Elizabeth 
Cornelia Ludlow, daughter of John & Catharine Hoog- 
land — Infant. 

Same day Baptized, Anna Puntine, wife of William Puntine 

Baptized Nov. 26, 1808 By the Revd Mr Barry Harriet, daugh- 
ter of Abraham & Elizabeth Eldert, born 19th Novbr 1808 

Baptized by the Revd E. D. Barry April i6th 1809 Sarah Juli- 
ana, daughter of Moses & Sarah Miller born 24th Jan. 
1809 

At the same time John Betts, son of Andrew and Catharine Na- 
pier, born March 26th 1809 
The above Baptisms during the time of Revd Mr Barry 
officiating at Grace Ch. Jamaica were copied from a list 
made out by him by Timothy Clowes 

Confirmation. Rt Revd Bishop Moore visited Grace Ch. Ja- 
maica 15th October 1808 and confirmed thirty persons 

Inserted by request of the Parents. Baptized at the City of 
Jersey (N. J.) Sarah, daughter of Philip & Sally Wil- 
liams loth Feb. 1809 Timothy Clowes 

GRACE CHURCH, JAMAICA, L. I. TIMOTHY CLOWES, 
DEACON OFFICIATING MINISTER 

May 14th 1809 Baptized by Revd Mr Jones, James, son of 
Jonathan and Sarah Rowland born 30th March 1809 

Baptized June 4, 1809 Mary Ann daughter of Nathaniel and 
Mary Austin, born September 5, 1799 

Baptized June 25th 1809, William Henry, son of Robert and 
Jane Carter of New York, born 7th April 1809 



OF GRACE CHURCH 317 

Baptized July 2n 1809 Harman Pruyn, Son of Joseph and 

Catherine Thatford, born 24th May 1809 
Baptized July 16, 1809 Jacob Miller, Adult, about 18 years of age 
Same day, John son of Joseph and Bonella Sealy born 2nd Octo- 
ber 1808 
Baptized August 13th 1809, Ann Eliza, daughter of Samuel & 

Eliza Carman, born 28th February 1808 
Baptized August 27th 1809 John a servant of John Troup Adult 

of about fifty years of age (black) 
Baptized November 9, 1809 Benjamin Roe, son of Sylvanus & 

Mary Halsey, born i6th September 1809 
Baptized February 4th 1810 Eliza daughter of William & Ann 

Sale born 19th November 1809 
Baptized February 11, 1810 Sarah daughter of Thomas and 

Nelly Mills born —(black) 

Baptized April 15, 1810 Washington Joseph, son of Samuel T 

and Eliza Carman born 17 Feb 1810 

REGISTER OF GRACE CHURCH JAMAICA, BY GILBT 
H. SAYRES OFFICIATING 

MARRIAGES 

August 4th 1810 Married Abiather Rhodes and Frances Hewlett 
May 9th 181 1 Married David Piatt & Anne Rowland, both of 

this Parish 
June 6th 181 1 Married John B. Church of N. York & Mary P. 

Austin of this Parish 
June 22, 181 1 Married William Van Nostrand & Martha Prine 

Thatford, of this Parish 
Nov. 3d 181 1 Married James McGee to Eliza Weeks, of Flushing 
May 30th 1812 Married Daniel Craft & Deborah Abrahams of 

Far Rockaway 
July 1st 1812 Married Doct Nathan Shelton to Miss Eliza Hen- 
rietta Starman 
July 4th 1812 Married Joseph Hendrickson to Ann Gildersleeve 
Same time, Jeremiah Roberts to Ann Cumings 
March 3d 1813 Married Peter Stoter to Ann Bennett 
May 6, 1813 Benjamin Tredwell Kissam to Miss Peggy Kissam, 
the former of N. York, the latter of this Parish 



318 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

June 19th 1813 Married Richard Cornell to Charity Van Sicklen 

of this place 
August 2ist 1813 Married Stephen Van Nostrand to Sarah 

Strickland 
September 5th 181 3 Married John Durling to Lavinia (both 

blacks) 
Oct. 23d 181 3 Married Cato Bates to Elsey Van Zants, both 

blacks 
Feb. loth 1814 Married, Benjamin Welling to Hannah Rowland, 

both of this Parish 
August 28th 1814 Married Henry Story to Eliza Bowne, both 

from Brooklynn 
August 29th 1814 Married Thomas Southard to Sarah Montress, 

both from Hemstead 
Novr I2th 1814 Married James Ferris to Keziah Box, of Flushing 
Married Feb. 12th 1815 Obadiah P. Leach to Susan Holland, 

both of this Parish 
Married May 4th 181 5 James S. Bailey of New York to Eliza 

S. Waters of this Parish 
Married August 27, 181 5 Andrew Allen of Phila to Clara La 

Combe of New York 
Married Deer. loth 181 5 Silas Roe to Sarah Denton, both of this 

place 
Married Dec. 23, 1815 John Flower to Eliza Eleanor Weeks of 

New York 
Married Jan. i, 1816 Plato Rhodes to Catherine — (blacks) of 

this place 
Married Jany 3d 1816 Isaac Bennet to Juda Burrows, all of 

Hemstead 
Married March 28, 1816 John Nostrand to Mary Ludlum of this 

place 
Married May 5, 1816 Aaron Palmer of N. York to Sarah Foster 

of this place 
Married July 20th 1816 Abraham Le Branthwaite to Mary Mar- 
garet Dewint all of New York 
Married October 13th 1816 John Van Beuren to Elizabeth Scott 

Aspinwall of this Parish 
Married Novr 9, 1816 John Van Nostrand to Rachel Hinchman 

both of this Parish 
Married Nov. 16, 1816 Moses Kissan to Margaret Reed (black) 

Both of this place 



OF GRACE CHURCH 319 

Married January 17, 1817 Henry W. Warner, of New York, to 
Anna Marsh Bartlett, of this place 

Married April 5th 1817 Victor Amede Pedroni, of Bordeaux to 
Lydia B. Vandevoort, of this place 

Married June 5, 1817 Jeremiah Ludlum to Silva Troup (blacks) 
of this place 

Married May 10, 1817 at Rah way, N. J. Anthony Woodward 
Esq to Mrs Elizabeth Mott 

Married August 2d 1817 Jacob Cozine of New Lotts to Jane 
Isabella Sprowls, of this Parish 

Married Novr. 5th 1817 Peter Ousterman & Jane Bloome 

Married April 22, 1818 Charles Beckwith and Nanchy Remsen 

Married August ist 1818 Benjamin T. Kissam and Peggy Kis- 
sam of this Parish 

Married Nov. 14th 1818 John B. Codwise and Eliza Creed of 
this Parish 

Married 9 Jany 1819 Richard Johnson & Susannah Beets 
(blacks) 

Married March 15, 1819 Augustus Gaston Camagne & Susannah 
Johnson of New York 

Married April i, 1819 Thomas Valentine & Sarah Brooks of 
Flushing 

Married 8th May 1819 Abraham Remsen & Deborah B. Down- 
ing of Oyster Bay 

Married Oct. 23, 1819 Plato Lawrence & Rebecca Smith (col- 
oured people) of this place 

Married Deer. 8, 1819 Stephen Fowler and Martha Fowler, of 
Flushing 

Married Jany 13, 1820 John Smith & Ann Thatford, of this place 

Married July nth 1820 Edward Cossart and Adelaide Cornell 
of Success. 

Married Deer. 25. 1820 Stephen James & Ellen Townsend 
(blacks) 

Married July 15th 182 1 Thompson Town and Sarah Ann Bur- 
ling of Hempstead 

Married August nth 1821 James Portley & Elizabeth Frazy 
(coloured) 

Married August 20, 1821 Wm. Stringham and Sarah Doxy, of 
Rockaway 



320 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Married Nov. 22, 1821 Toney Edsall and Catherine Ditmis (col- 
oured) 

Married March 3d 1822 Gilbert V. Hewlett and Eliza Nostrand, 
both of Rockaway 

Married March 8th 1822 Samuel Hedges & Sarah Jarvis, col- 
oured 

Married March 8th 1822 John Henry Marshall and Matilda 
Winthrop of New York 

also at the same time as above Allen W. Hardie and Caroline 
Cox, also of New York 

Married Septr. 4, 1822 Charles Johnson and Eliza Goodman 
of Newtown 

Married Oct. 12, 1822 Epentus Wood and Phebe Smith 

Married Deer, nth 1822 Wm Smith & Eliza Van Nostrand, 
of Success 

Married Jany 9, 1823 Michael Ulshoffer and Marian Gracie 

Married Jany. 26, 1823 Lewis Hewlett and Sarah Ann DeMott 
of Rockaway 

Married Jany. 30, 1823 Benjamin Lawrence & Phebe Rowland 

Married Feby. 5, 1823 Cornelius Fowler and Mary Van Nos- 
trand of Success 

Married August 2d 1823 Abraham Sypher and Abbey Holmes 

Married Nov. 8th 1823 Oliver Hewlett & Cornelia Seaman, of 
Rockaway 

Married January 4th, 1824, John G. George and Sarah Zantz both 
of New York 

Married March 21, 1824 Samuel Johnson and Margaret Watts 
(coloured people) 

Married April 17, 1824 James Chaniplin & Hannah Sprowls 
(Blacks) 

Married May 15, 1824 Jacob Woods and Margaret Betts 
(blacks) 

Married July 18, 1824 Benjamin L. Cornell and Elizabeth Field 

same day Elias Harrison & Susan Smith (blacks) 

Married August 9, 1824 John Smith & Mary Ann Roe (blacks) 

Married Sept. 4, 1824 Edward Burdett &: Mary Thomas, of 
Brooklyn 

Do same day James Gilbert Morrell and Margaret Loweree, of 
Flushing 



OF GRACE CHURCH 321 

Married Sept. ii, 1824 George Riner and Jane Doughty, both 

of Rockaway 
Married Sept. 20, 1824 Pearson Watts and Elizabeth Shaw 
Married Sept. -22, 1824 Charles Wright and Jane Lawrence of 

Flushing 
Married Jany 3, 1825 Samuel Vandewater & Maria Allen of 

New York 
Married April 15 1825 John Spragg and Mehetible Place 
Married July 3d 1825 Isaac Eldert and Mary Carpenter of this 

place 
Married Sept. 15, 1825 John B. Higbie and Aletta Anne Hen- 

drickson of Springfield 
Married Sept. 18, 1825 Isaac Cornell and Sarah Gildersleeve, 

of New York 
Married October 29, 1825 Jacob Williams and Judah Waters 

(blacks) 
Married Dec. 19th 1825 Thomas Brown and Julia Amberman 

(Blacks) 
Married March 27th 1826 Francis Williams and Eliza Smith 

(blacks) 
Married April 1826 James Jones and Lavinia Durling 

(blacks) 
Married June 8th 1826 Thomas Mott and Mary Mott, of Rock- 
away 
Married June 15, 1826 Gilbert D. Craft and Fanny H. Fosdick 
Married June 22th 1826 Silvenus Hunter and Dorothea Punnett 

(coloured people) of Flushing. 
Married July 24, 1826 George G. Mitchill and Mary Elizabeth 

Lawrence, of Flushing 
Married July 29, 1826 Peter Van Ess and Angelina Cornell 

(blacks) from New Town 
Married August 27, 1826 Francis Henry Contoit and Ann Green 

of this place. 
Married Nov. i8th 1826 Wm Jones & Philis Santon 
Married March 3d 1827 John Coe & Phebe Denton. 
Married March 24, 1827 Anthony Mulkin & Rosanna Mayhew 

(coloured) 
Married Sept. 16, 1827 Daniel Losey and Maria Remsen, of 

Brooklyn 
Married Nov. 14, 1827 Henry Crommeline and Harriet Hallett 



322 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Married Jany 2, 1828 John H. Valentine and Martha H. Denton 

Married Feby. 6, 1828 Wm Roe and Phebe Kissam, both of 
Flushing 

Married March 26, 1828 John A. Gurley and Margaret Hallett 

Married April 3d 1828 Jesse Hoyt and Cornelia Thurston 

Married April 5, 1828 Silvenus Townsend & Hannah Treed- 
well (coloured) 

Married July 4, 1828 John Mitchell, of New York, and Charlotte 
Rodman, of this Place. 

Married July loth 1828 John Winslow Whitman of Boston, and 
Sarah Helen Powers, of Providence, (R. I.) 

Married June 22, 1828 Griffin and Widow, Helen Roe, of 

Flushing 

Married August 31, 1828. Richard Sealy and Catherine Gilleen, 
of this place 

Married Jany. 14, 1829 Harvey D. Hewlett & Effy Nostrand 

Married April 16, 1829 Thomas Van Nostrand & Helen Schenck 

Married by Revd G. H. Sayres, June 20, 1829 James Carpenter 
& Jane Smith, of Flushing. 

July 12, 1829 Married by Revd G. H. Sayres, Charles W. Pit- 
man & Ann Maria Nicholls, both of Brooklyn 

July 25, 1829 Married by Revd G. H. Sayres, William Haley 
& Rachael Betts (coloured) 

Oct. II, 1829 Married by Revd G. H. Sayres, William Creed & 
Jane E. Cornwell, of this place 

Jany. 3d 1830 Married by Revd. G. H. Sayres, William Stew- 
art & Susan Garrison (blacks) 
Addenda by Revd. Wm. L. Johnson (see Register No. 2) 

Aug. 5th 1830 Married James Rowland & Hannah R. Seaman, 
Jamaica. 

FUNERALS 

Burried, Sept. 18, 1824 Mrs Hallworth 

Sept. 22, 1824 By Revd Mr E. M. Johnson, Isaac, infant son 

of G. H. Sayres. 
Jany 1825 Mr Benjamin Rowland, of this Parish 
Feby. 28, 1825 Widow Skidmore, of this place 
April 15, 1825 The Widow of Dudley Brown, of Brooklyn 
May 10, 1825 Mrs. Oldfield, Widow of Joseph Oldfield of this 

Parish. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 323 

July 1825 An Infant child of Thomas Valentine of New 

York 
July 22, 1825 Miss Habersham, of Savannah, Georgia 
July An Infant child of James G. King, of New York 

August Miss Welling, daughter of John Welling, deed, of 

Brooklyn 
Nov. 13, 1825 The Wife of Wm Smith of Foster's Meadows 
Deer. 17, 1825 Major Charles McNeill, of this Parish 
March 11, 1826 Mrs. Simison, and James Cortelyou, both of 

this Place 
March 20, 1826 Mrs Welling 
May 14, 1826 Sarah Jones, a coloured woman 
Sept. 1826 A child of Silas Roe 

Sept. 15, 1826 A daughter of Nathaniel Simmons 
Sept. 27, 1826 Burried an Infant Child of Wm Sinclair, of 

Charleston 
Oct. 14, 1826 Burried Christopher Troup 
Burried Oct. 20, 1826, Alexander H. Codwise 
Burried Feby 1827 The Wife of Wm Thatford, from N. York 
Burried Feby 2d 1827 Mrs Tapp, of this Parish 
May 2d 1827 Burried Hon. Rufus King, of this Parish 
August 1827 The Infant daughter of T. C. Pinkney 

August 23, Wm Beckley, of this place 

August 25 Elizabeth Brewer, of this parish 

Sept. 2, 1827 A child of David Piatt, deed. 
Burried Oct 6, 1827, Mr. Clements, of this parish 
Burried June 15, 1828, Wm McKee of this parish 
Burried August 1828 Elizabeth Brashier, widow, of this parish 
Burried Sept. i, 1828 Lewis E. A. Eigenbrodt, Senior Warden 

of this Church for many years. 
Burried Sept. 2, 1828 Cornelia Hoogland, wife of John Hoog- 

land, of this parish 
Burried May 1829 Sarah, the wife of Silas Roe 
Burried August 1829 Gilbert Roe of New York 
Burried Oct. 8th 1829 Capt. Joseph Roe, of this parish 
Burried Deer. 7, 1829 Mrs. Vandeburgh, of this parish 

DEATHS 

Anno 1790 Burried by Me W. H. 

At Jamaica, July — The Widow Betts 



324 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

At Newtown Augst — Mrs. Patience Titus, wife of David Titus 

At Flushing Augst — A Son of Mr. Fairchild 

At Jamaica Sept. 21st Mrs Mary Ogden, wife of Dr. Jacob 

Ogden 
Flushing, Octobr. or Nov. Mrs. Beesley wife of Mr. Beesley 
Anno 1791 

Jamaica Jany i8th Miss Margaret Waters 
At New Town Feby 17th Woodred, son of the Widow Woodred 

At Jamaica April 27 Mrs Seely of Fosters' Meadows 

At Flushing May ist Mr. Robert Crommeline 

At Jamaica Augst 9th Mr. Samuel Sackett, Sr 

At Flushing Sept. 29th Mrs Mary Haviland 

At Jamaica Octobr i6th Samuel, child of Samuel and Elizabeth 

Sackett 
Anno 1792 

At Jamaica Jany. i6th Capt. Daniel Whitehead 
At Jamaica May 3rd Joseph Van Nostrand 

At Hallets Cove July 2nd Greenoak 

At New Town Sep. nth Richard Morrell 
Anno 1793 

At Jamaica June 6th son of Isaac and Mary Pettit 

Burried at Flushing August i8th Mrs Aspinwall. wife of Wil- 
liam Aspinwall, of New York 
At Jamaica August 23d Miss Gersia Combs, formerly of this 

Congregation 
At Jamaica Sepbr ist Nathaniel Lewis, Child of Nathaniel & 

Elizabeth Betts 
At Jamaica Sep 9th Elizabeth Morris, a child of Joseph and 

Elizabeth Morris 
At Flushing Octobr i8th John, a child of John Hutchins & Ann 

Smith 
At Jamaica, Dec. 8th Miss Emelia Betts 
At New Town Dec. 23, Mrs Lydia Boroughs 
Anno 1794 

At New York Jany. 6th Samuel Brownjohn from Jamaica. 
At New Town Jany. 28th Miss Elizabeth Alsop 
At Flushing June 4th Widow Lowrie 
At New Town June 15 Paul, a Child of Peter and Anna Van- 

dervoort 
At Flushing Sept 13th Mrs Lawrence, of Fresh Meadows 



OF GRACE CHURCH 325 

At Jamaica Dec. loth Mr Willet, of New York 

At Jamaica Dec. 15th Burried Robert, son of Charles & Sarah, 

McNeill 
At Jamaica Dec. 28th Mr Benjamin Carpenter 

1795 

At Flushing- Feby. 8 xA.nn Louisa, a child of John & Sarah Hicks 
by Revd Charles Seabury 

This is to Certify that the following Funerals were attended by 
me. Elijah D. Rattoone, 

Rector of Grace Church, Jamaica. 

The funeral of Mrs Dissosway was attended by Revd Mr. 

Barry June 26, 1808 
The funeral of Mrs Parker was attended by the Revd E. D. Barry 

October — 1808 
The funeral of Mrs Price was attended bv Revd Mr Barry Novbr 

6, 1808 
The funeral of Mrs — — Woofendale from New York was at- 
tended by Revd E. D. Barry 14th Decbr 1808 
The above funerals were taken from a list kept bv Revd. Edmund 
D. Barry. 

Drowned on 30th May 1808 Benjamin Roe of this Parish 
On Sunday June nth a funeral sermon was preached on the occa- 
sion. Timothy Clowes, Deacon 

Officiating in Grace Ch. Jam. 

Burried August 16, 1809, Ann Eliza, infant daughter of Samuel 

and Eliza Carman. T. Clowes 

Burried August 26, 1809 Anna Roe of this Parish, aged 16 years 

and 8 months T. Clowes 

Burried August 30th i8og Sarah Juliana, infant daughter of Moses 

& Sarah Miller T. Clowes 

Burried September 28th 1809 Sarah Newman, wife of Richard 

Newman, aged ■},2 years T. Clowes 

Burried November 12th 1809 Alexander Troup, son of John & 

Sarah Troup aged 7 years T. Clowes 

Burried December 17th 1809 William Newman, son of Richard & 

Sarah Newman, aged i year and 10 mos. 
Burried February 5th 1810 Catharine Thatford, wife of Joseph 

Thatford, of this Parish. Timothy Clowes 



326 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Burried August 21st 1810 Sarah Morrell, wife of James Morrell, 

of this Parish Gilbert H. Sayres 

Burried 5th of April 181 1 Nathaniel Mills of this Parish 

G. H. Sayres. 
Burried 7th July 181 1 Thomas Welling, of this Parish 

G. H. Sayres 
Burried August 13th 181 1 Thomas Ogden Sacket, infant of Mr. 

Augustus Sacket 
Burried August 15th 181 1 Daughter infant of 

BURRIALS BY REVD GILBERT H. SAYRES 

Sept 4th 1811 An infant of Mr McKee 

Oct. 10, 181 1 An infant of Mr. John W. Welling, of this Parish 

Oct. 13, 181 1 Sarah Hinsksman of this Parish 

Oct. 13, 1811 Wm Mackrell, a lad about 14 years of age 

Oct. 31, 1811 An infant of Mr Johnson 

Feby. 2.y, 1812 Joseph Oldfield, of this Parish 

April 6th 1812 At East Woods, Mr. John Hewlett, Esq of this 

Parish 
April 14, 1812 James Macrell, Jun. of this Parish 
April 18, 1812 Peter Mills, of this Parish 
June 5th 1812 Daniel Kissam, Esq of North Hemstead 
June 6th 1812 Richard Van-lew of this Parish 
June 30th 1 81 2 John Van-lew, Senr. of this Parish 
July 1st 181 2 A child of about 4 years of age, a daughter of 

Abraham Eldert of Hell Gate 
Oct. 16 1812 An Infant of Andrew and Catherine Napier 
March 21st 1813 Mrs. Welling, widow of the late Thomas Welling 

of this Parish 
May 7th 181 3 James Morrell of N. York, formerly of this Parish 
June 28th 1813 A daughter of Joseph Thatford, of this Parish 
Septr II, 1813 Caleb Mills, of this Parish 
Novr 16, 1813 Mrs Sarah McNeill, wife of Major McNeill, of this 

Parish 
Novr 30th 1813 Mrs. Lavinia Mott wife of Mr. Jacob Mott of 

New York 
Decb 12, 1813 Abigail Ann, child of Willet & Elizabeth Skidmore 

of this Parish 
Feby. 25, 1814 A child of Mr Brown of Brooklyn 
March ist 1814 Lawrence Roe, of Brooklyn, son of Joseph Roe, 
of this Parish 



OF GRACE CHURCH 327 

April 19, 1814 a boy about 3 years old son of the widow of Mr 

John Welling formerly of this parish 
July 3d 1814 Mr Josiah Brown of Brooklyn, by the Rt Rev Bp 

Hobart 
August 15, 1814 Mrs Hicks of New York 

Sept — 1814 A child of Mr Urias Hendrickson, of this Parish 
Jany. 15, 1815 Mrs Charlotte Creed, wife of Hewlet Creed, of 

this Parish 
Jan. 21, 181 5 A child of Darius Johnson of this Parish 
Feb. 18, 1815 A child of Andrew Napier of this Parish 
Oct. 22, 1815 A child of Mr Halsey, of this Parish 
May 7, 181 5 Josiah Brown of Brooklyn 

Oct. — 1815 At Flushing, a daughter of Mr Kissam of Coobrie Hill 
Oct. 22, 1815 A child of Mr Halsey, of this Parish 
Jany 6, 181 5 (6) Isaac Jones, a son of Jonathan Jones, of this 

Parish 
Jany 13 (1816) Neill McNeill, a son of Major Charles McNeill 

of this Parish 
May 29, 1816 The wife of Oliver Strickland, of this Place 
June 17, 1816 Miss Tredwell, at Great Neck, a niece of 

Mr Benjm Tredwell, of Cow Neck 
July 6, 1816 Mr John Brown of New York 
July — 1816 Mr .... Brown of Brooklyn 
August 17, 1816 George Codwise, Jun. of this Parish 
Nov. 27, 1816 Sarah Lating, of this Parish 
January 13th 1817 The Wife of James Mackrell, of New York 

formerly of this Parish 

May — 1817 Mr Polhemus, of this Parish 

May — 1817 Nathaniel Roe of New York 

July 9th 1817 John Troup, of this Parish 

August 24, 1817 At Rockaway Mr. Holeman, late from London 

October — 1817 Addra Hendrickson of this Parish 

1818 Sarah Jones, buried. 

August 8, 1818 Benj T. Kissam, hurried 

1818 Mrs Hinchman, from Brooklyn 

October 1818 Mrs Van len of this Parish 
Jany 17, 1819 Sarah Elizabeth Hicks 

May loth 1819 Catherine Napier, a Child of Andrew Napier of 

this Parish 
Sept. 18, 1819 Gilbert Aspinwall of this Place 



328 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Oct. 3, 1819 James Mackrell, formerly of this parish 
May — 1819 Mary King, wife of Rufus King, Esq of this Parish 
Nov. 2, 1819 Elizabeth Puntine, of this place 
Jany 28, 1820 Mrs. Cortelyeou, of this place 
Feby. loth 1820 Mrs. Simison, of Rockaway 
Feby. 29 1820 Stephen Hicks, of this Parish 
Sept. 2^, 1820 — Col. Peter Cortelyou, of this place 
Sept. 27, 1820 Elizabeth Sproul of this parish 
Oct. 24, 1820 At Cedar Swamp Mrs, the wife of Richard Town- 
send, of N York 
Nov. 9, 1820 Catherine, Infant daughter of Joseph Thatford 
Jany 29th 1821 A young child of Obediah Valentine 
April I2th 1821 Richard Wiggins of this Parish 
August 15 1 82 1 Charles Welling of this Parish 
Oct. 20, 182 1 Hewlett son of Thomas Cornell, of this place 
Oct. 21, 1821 Nancy Puntine, wife of Wm Puntine 
Oct. 22, 1821 John Waters, of this place 
Dec. 20, 1821 David Rowland, of this parish, also 
same day. Widow of the late Richard Betts, also of this Parish 
Jany 23, 1822 Aaron Van Nostrand of this Parish, for many 

years sexton of the Church 
Feby. 9, 1822 Mrs. Danson of this Parish 
Feby. 15, 1822 Miss Betts of this Parish 
Sept. 20, 1822 Charity Thatford, daughter of Joseph Thatford 

of this parish 
Feby. 16, 1823 By the Revd Mr Eram M. Johnson John Tillotson 
Sayres, infant son of Revd G. H. Sayres, Rector of this Church 
March 23, 1823 Mrs Waters, of this parish 
March 27, 1823 Mrs Valentine, wife of Obediah Valentine of this 

parish 
Oct. 2, 1823 At Cedar Swamp, Isaac Hersfield, of New York 
July — 1823 Mrs Elizabeth Welling, wife of Samuel Welling 

of this Parish 
August — 1823 Samuel Welling of this parish 
Oct. 3d 1823 Jonathan Jones, of Rockaway 
April 23, 1824 Mrs Katherine Smith, of this parish 
July 17, 1824 Jonathan Jones of the Wallabout 
August 9, 1824 Ida Rowland 



OF GRACE CHURCH 329 

BAPTISMS OF NEGROES 

Anno 1790 

New Tow Augst 8 Baptized Andrew & Harry children of 

New Tow Septbr 19 William, Son of and both be- 
longing to John Titus of Kings County 

Jamaica Sept. 26th William, son of Peter and Elizabeth both 
the property of Christopher Smith. 

Jacob, son of Helena, the property of Mr Wicoff, New Lots 
Peter belonging to Mr. C. Smith and 
Sarah belonging to Nicholas Jones, Sponsors 

Anno 1 79 1 

New Town May 8th George, the son of Tobias, the property of 
Mr Wm Londings and his wife 
Diana the property of the widow of Daniel Leister 

New Town, May 29th Nancy, belonging to Mr John Lawrence 
Esq, and Diana belonging to Mr Cornelius Leister. Adults 
Rachel, daughter of France the Property of the Widow of 
Cornelius Rapeljie, and his wife 
Nanc}', the property of John Lawrence Esq 
Frank, the son of Frank, the property of Wm Lawrence 
Esq and his wife 

Diana, belonging to Cornelius Leister 

Elsie, daughter of Samuel, the property of Jacobus Riker, 
and his wife 
Ruth, belonging to Samuel Riker 

Jamaica, June 12th, Anthony, & his wife Elizabeth, Adults, the 
property of Amos Denton 

Samuel, son of Harry & Diana the property of Mr John 
Duryee, Jamaica South. Mr Christopher Smiths Peter, God- 
Father 

New Town, July 17th Juda, daughter of Tom, the property of 
Mr Van Rand, at BushWicke and his wife 
Hannah, the property of Jacobus Collier, of Bush Wicke 

Jamaica July 24th Ringumbum, An Adult, the property of Mr 
Depeyster 

New Town, August 7 John Francis, the Son of Francis a free- 
man, and his w^ife 
Lyda, the property of Saml. Waldrom, Esq. 



330 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

New Town, Augst 28, Jacob, an Adult, the property of Robert 
Moore 

Jamaica October i6th James, an Adult, the property of Hen- 
drick Hendrickson of Springfield 

Jamaica Nov. 6th Caesar, An Adult, the property of Mr Philip 
Piatt 

Anno 1792 

Flushing March 4th Josiah, An Adult Patience, daughter of 
Sylvester and his wife Gosiah 

Jamaica March i8th Richard, An Adult, the property of Al- 
bert Hoghland, of Flushing 

Wm Hammell Rector 

Jamaica April loth Susanna, daughter of Isaac & Susanna. 

Free people formerly the property of Col. Robinson 
Jamaica April 22, Pero, an Adult, A Freeman 

Jane, his wife, the property of John Hinchsman 

Robert & Mary, their children 
Jamaica May 20th Diana, the daughter of John & Nelly both 

the property of Mr Winecoop of New Lots, Sponsors. Peter 

belongs to C. Smith Sarah belongs to Nicho. Jones Nelly, 

the mother 
Flushing, Augst 26 Fanny, the daughter of Venus, the property 

of Mrs Aspinwall Sponsors : Hannabal, belongs to Mrs 

Aspinwall & Margaret, belongs to Col Piatt. 
New Town, Sep. 23 Maria, the daughter of Saml. belongs to 

George Duvoise & 

Sarah belongs to Charles Duvoise 

Richard, the Son of York & Lydia free people N. B. John 

John Costin, a freeman, and the Mothers, were Sponsors 
New Town Octobr 14 Thomas, An Adult the property of John 

Van Alse 
Jamaica April 21st Jane, An Adult the property of Maria 

Snedeker 
Jamaica, April 28, Cornelius, Son of Peter and Elizabeth, both 

belonging to Christopher Smith 
Jamaica, June 9th, Robert, An Adult, a Freeman 
New Town, June 23d Diana, An Adult belongs to the Widow 

Rapeljie 

Jane, the daughter of George belongs to the Widow Leister 

and Diana his wife &c. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 331 

John Venter, son of Samuel belonging to Jacobus Ryker and 
Ruth the property of Saml. Ryker 

Dorcas, Daughter of France belongs to Wm Lawrence Esq 
and Diana, the property of Cornelius Leister 

Newtown, July 14th Thomas, a Son of Francis a Freeman and 
Lyda the property of Samuel Waldron N. B. Saml. belongs 
to the Widow Leister, and the Mother Sponsors 

New Town Octobr 6th James, Son of Andrew & his Wife 
Sarah the one belonging to John & the other to Francis 
Titus 

Jamaica, Novbr 3rd Robert, son of Robert, a Freeman and Lille, 
the property of Mrs Alsop. The Father & Elizabeth belong- 
ing to Mr Denton, sponsors 

Ann, daughter of Richard, belonging to Mr Hoghland, and 
Jane belonging to Maria Snedeker The Father & Grandmother 
Sponsors 

1794 

New Town March 23. Thomas, Son of Tobias, the property of 
Wm Londings, and Diana belonging to the Widow Leister 

Wm Hammell, Rectr 

Jamaica March 30. Baptized, Diana daughter of Tero a Free- 
man and Jane, belonging to John Rapelye, of N. Town 

Jamaica April 20th Baptized Dorcas, a Free Woman Adult 

Abraham, Son of Jacob & Dorcas, free people Sponsors, 
the Father, and Hester, belongg to the Widow Smith, N. T. 

Flushing April 2^. Baptized Diana an Adult a Free Woman 

Flushing May 3d Baptized Abraham, an Adult A Free man 

Jamaica August 3d Baptized Sarah an Adult belonging to Hen- 
drick Hendrickson, and Thomas the Son of James, also the 
property of the above Person & Sarah his wife 

Jamaica Augst 31. Baptized Cato, the son of Harry, belonging 
to John Thatford and Diana his wife, belonging to Duryee 
of Jamaica South 

Jamaica Sept. 21st Baptized Anthony, Son of Jane belongg to 
David Sprung also, Nathaniel, son of Thomas & Elizabeth, 
both the property of Isaac Amberman, the Parents of the 
latter were also Sponsors for the former 

also Nancy Reed, daughter of Isaac & Susanna Robertson, Free 
people. 

Anno 1795 



332 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

New Town, Jany. nth Baptized Lydia, daughter of York & 

Lydia, Free people Thomas, belonging to John Van Alse 

and the Mother were Sponsors. 
New Town Feby i. Baptized, Elizabeth daughter of Samuel 

belongs to Elbert Leyster & Sarah belongs to Widow De- 

voise, Frank, a Free man and the Mother Sponsors. 
New Town, Feby. 22, Baptized George an adult belonging to 

Peter Culver of Bushwick, & Diana, daughter of the above 

and Jane belongs to Peter Duryee. 
New Town, June 7th, Baptized James, son of James, a Freeman 

& Diana belongs to Mr Devoise, at Fresh pond. 

JAMAICA, BAPTIZED BY ELIJAH D. RATTOONE, RECTOR OF GRACE CHURCH 

Thomas, born 24th of July 1796 and baptized 25th day of June 
1797, the Sponsors being Thomas & Elizabeth the Parents, 
the property of Isaac Ambleman 

Thomas, son of Richard Rhodes freeman & Nancy, Slave of 
Christopher Smith born 30th Octr 1798 Baptized June 30th 

1799 
Thomas, born 28th Augt. Bap. Sept. 28th 1800, child of Thomas 

& Elizabeth, servts of Eliphalet Weeks Esq Jamaica. The 

Parents were Sponsors 

Elizabeth, child of Frank and Dinah servants of Capt. Motley 
born Feby 3d 1801 & bap Do 22d Do Sponsors Anthony & 
Betty, Servants of Amos Denton 

Henry Lawrence, born Feby 30, 1798 & Saml. Lawrence Do 
Octr 2d 1802 children of Francis & Margaret slaves of 
William Taylor & John Rattoone, bapd Aug. 2d 1801 Par- 
ents, the Sponsors 

Mary born July loth 1800, bapd 9th Novr Do. Parents & Spon- 
sors, Peter & Elizabeth, Slaves of Mr Christopher Smith 

PRIVATE RECORD OF GILBERT H. SAYRES AFTER 
HIS RECTORSHIP CEASED. 

MARRIAGES 

Married Dec. 29, 1835 Rowland Seaman and Anne Piatt 
Married 7th April 1836 Dr Richard I. Horsfield and Catherine 
L. Nostrand 



OF GRACE CHURCH 333 

Married Feby 21, 1837 Jeremiah Valentine and Sarah Vande- 

verg 
Married April 13, 1837 James Francis and Martha Ann Coles 
Married May 15, 1838 Charles Simison and Phebc Corn well 

of Hempstead 
Married August 18, 1838 Benjamin Bates and Jane Elizabeth 

Johnson (cold) 
Married Oct. 16, 1838 Jeremiah Mayhew and Fancina Simmons 

(col) 
Married Jany 13, 1839 John Miller and Hannah Ann Thomp- 
son (cold) 
Married Sept. 12, 1840 Nicholas W. Francis and Phebe Eliza 

Abrams 
Married Oct. 4, 1840 James Hubbard Poole and Phebe Maria 

Cornwell of Kings County 
Married Oct. 22, 1840 Nelson Pryer and Sarah Ann Sands (cold) 
Married Dec. 25, 1841 Wm Thompson & Elizabeth Tredwell 

(cold) 
Married July 2, 1842 Wm Coles and Sarah Anne Leak 
Married Sept. 29, 1842 Samuel Smith & Jane Rhodes (colord) 
Married August 16, 1843 Richard Furman & Amelia Leonard 

(cold) 
Married Feby. 27, 1844 John Verity and Phebe Eliza Coles 
Married April 3, 1844 Samuel Verity and Susan Raynor 
Married July 15, 1844 Samuel Coes, and Elizabeth Stine, both of 

Newtown 
Married April loth 1845, at Brooklyn, Thomas Harvey Rodman 

and Mary Anne Mann, all of Brooklyn, G. Sayres, witness 
Married July 20, 1846, Joseph Furman and Sarah Ferris (cold) 
Married Sept. 30, 1846 William Welling and Elizabeth Smith, 

both of Jamaica 
Married March 15, 1847 David William Skidmore, and Mary 

Smith both of this parish 
Married June 20, 1847 Samuel White and Mary_ Sisco (cold) 

of this place. 
Married August 2, 1847 Joseph Verity and Lucy Burtis 
Married October 20th 1847 Gilbert Sayres and Anna Leah Sea- 
man, both of this place 
Married April 26, 1848 Frederick Mooshake and Susan Smith 



334 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Married May 5, 1848 Peter Amberman & Lydia Johnson 

(colord) 
Married May 2, 1849 Wm Henry Verity and Susan Elizabeth 

Frederick 
Married May 23, 1849 George Bedell and Charity Amelia Fred- 
erick 
Married May 30, 1850 Charles W. Abrams and Sarah B. Rem- 

sen 
Married Nov. 20, 1850 Henry Johnson and Hannah Orange 

(both cold) 
Married May 25, 1851 Thomas H. Vassar and Mary Elizabeth 

Youngs 
Married Sept. 8, 1852 Peter Howard and Janette Johnson (cold) 
Oct. 23, 1852 Married Thomas Springsteen and Ida Villers 

Johnson (cold) 
Novr. 28, 1852 Married James L. Smith and Maria Louisa Lester 
April 7, 1853 Married Anthony Jones and Elizabeth Dusenbury 

(colord) 
June 23, 1853 Married, by Rev. George Sayres, Joseph Johnson, 

and Mary Anne Boyd (col.) 
1853 August I, Married Samuel Corn well and Sarah Hewlett 
Dec. 12, Married William Henry Cisco and Mary Anne Smith 

(cold) 

1855 Nov. 23, Married Augustus Hook and Mary Grawi, both 
of this place. 

1856 Sept. 18, Married in Grace Church, Dr. Charles Henry 
Barker of Frederickton and my younges daughter Lydia 
Stewart Sayres. 

1857 July 4 Married John R. Jackson and Diana Van Nostrand 
(cold) 

1858 Oct. 17 Married James Jones, and Nancy Edsal, (cold) 
1858 Oct. 20th Married, William Johnson & Matilda Ann Nos- 
trand (cold) 

Oct. 24, Married, Edward Bayard, Junr and Mary Am- 
berman (cold) 
Dec. 20th Married George Cole and< Matilda Wyckoff 
(cold) 
1863 July 4, Married George Lallman and Eve Hollall 
August 9, 1863 Married Robert Many and Phebe Cisco 
Sept. 13, 1863 Married Henry Roe and Emma Maria Byene 



OF GRACE CHURCH 335 

April 29, 1864 Married Wm Menger and Theresa Pitnot 

1864 June 9, Married in St. Thomas Church, Ravenswood L. I. 
The Rev. Samuel W. Sayres, Rector of the Church and 
Mary E. Bicker 

Nov. 5, 1864 Married Samuel Cooper and Julia Ann Hinckman 

cold) 
Oct. 8. 1865 Married Livingston R. Mitchell and Ann Eliza 

Roe (cold) 
Dec. 10, 1865 Married Edward Menschen and Catherine Tan- 

nerman 
Dec. 23, 1865 Married Francis Husher and Mary Briney 
At the same time Married John Brown and Eliza Husher 
1867, March 31 Married Adam Negrand and Catherine Smith 

1865 June 21 Married Wm J. Sayres & Phebe S. Huntting, G. 
S. Witness (Ent. by G. S.) 

BAPTISED BY G. H. SAYRES 
Born Dec. 13, 1787 Died Apl. 27, 1867 — G. S. 

Baptised April 3, 1836 Joseph Melony, son of John and Anne 
Manwaring born Dec. 5, 1835 

Baptised August 4th 1836 William Allen, son of David William 
and Elizabeth Skidmore, of Ohio, born 6th April 1836 

Baptised Dec. 4, 1836 Susan Cisco a cold young woman 

Baptised Dec. 28, 1836 Mary, born 15 Nov. 1828 and Wm Henry, 
born 26 Dec 1834 children of John and Phebe Sisco (cold) 

Baptised August 10, 1837 Sarah Grigsby daughter of James and 
Hendry, born August 4, 1836 

Baptised June 9th 1838 John son of David William and Eliza- 
beth Skidmore of Ohio, born 26th March 1838 

Baptised June 23, 1838 Samuel Harris son of Washington H. 
and Mary Rodman born nth March 1838 

Baptised August 7, 1838 William Jeffrey son of James and 
Elizabeth Lodge born Feby. 20, 1838 

Baptised March 31, 1840 Emeline daughter of John and Eliza- 
beth Sprouls born 14 March 1840 

Baptised Sept. 30 1840 Adrian Hoffman son of Dr George H. 
and Mary Ann Kissam born 15 April 1840 

Baptised Oct. 12. 1840 Elizabeth Harvey daughter of Wash- 
ington H. and Mary Rodman born i6th June 1840 



336 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Baptised Nov — 1840 My Sister Abigail Sayres, born Oct. i, 

1797 
Baptised Sept. 12, 1842 Margaret daughter of James and Mar- 
garet Beard, born 5th June 1841 
Baptised Sept 28, 1842 Frederick, son of Henry and Anne Pen- 
nington, born 4th April 1841 
Baptised April 10, 1845 Francis Beresford, son of Washington 

H. and Mary Rodman born 10 Novr 1844 
Baptised Martha, daughter of Gilbert and Anna 

Leah Sayres born May 8, 1849 
Baptised Feb. 14, 1852 Rebecca Ann, child of Joseph and Sarah 

Furman (colord) 
Baptised Jany. i, 1853 James Alexander, son of Thomas S. 

and Martha L. Jackson, born April 15 1853 (col) 
Baptised Jany i, 1852 William Seaman, son of Gilbert and 

Anna Leah Sayres born i6th October 185 1 
Baptised Jany. i, 1854 Mary Regina, daughter of Gilbert and 

Anna Leah Sayres born 2 Nov. 1853 
Baptised Jany 18, 1855 Clarissa Elizabeth, daughter of Francis 

and Clara Beman (cold) Born 18 Dec 52 
Baptised July 22, 1855 Isaac, son of Joseph and Sarah Elizabeth 

Anthony, about 3 years old (cold) 
Baptised March 30, 1857 John son of George and Leene Schible 

born 21 (Feby last) 1857 
Baptised June 14, 1857 Louis son of John and Mina Knoechel. 

born 3 June inst. 
Baptised Sept. 2, 1857 Gilbert Sayres, son of Charles H. and 

Lydia S. Barker, born Angus 27 (last past) 1857 
Baptised i, Nov. — 1857 John Frederick, son of John Freder- 
ick and Helen Hamburger, Born 6th Nov. Instant 
Baptised August 8, 1858 John Jacob son of John and Caroline 

Miiller born July 30th last past 
Baptised Sept. 21, 1858 Herbert Alonzo, son of Daniel and 

Mary Cobleigh born Oct. 27, 1855 
Baptised Anne Eliza daughter of Gilbert and Anne 

L. Sayres born Nov. 17, 1858 Baptised Jany. 25, 1859. 
Baptised Feb. 23, 1859 George son of George and Rosina Pifer 

born Janry 8, 1859 
Baptised Eliza Adaline daughter of Dr. Charles H. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 337 

and Lydia S. Barker born 21 May 1859. Baptised August 

5, 1859 8 

Baptised (Cold) George Washington son of John and Charlotte 

Rantus March 23, i860 
Baptised August 30, i860 George Henry son of Henry H. and 

Catherine Schoonmaker, born 16 April 1859 
Baptised Oct. 28, i860 Gilbert Barker son of Gilbert and Anne 

Leah Sayres born Sept. 9, i860 
i860 Nov. 25, Baptised Johanna daughter of John and Caroline 

Miiller, born Nov. loth 
Nov. 25, i860 Baptised Amelia, daughter of Henry and Eliza- 
beth Miller born 27 August i860 
Jany 28, 1861 Baptised Isabella, daughter of Jacob and Mary 

Elizabeth Durell (Col) born Dec i860 
Baptised August 24, 1862 Caroline daughter of Charles and 

Frederick Behr born 25 July last 1862 
Baptised March 15 1863 Eleonora, daughter of John and Caroline 

Moehler born 26 Feb. last past 1863. 
At the same time Henry son of Henry and Sophia Straub born 

27, March 1862 
Baptised June 17th 1863 Abigail Elizabeth daughter of Dr 

Charles H. and Lydia S. Barker born i8th Nov. 1862 
Baptised August 8, 1863 Wm Son of Wm and Louisa Johnson 

(cold) born April 2d last past 
Baptised August 23, 1863 Samuel son of John and Charlotte 

Rantus (cold) born 5 April last 
Baptised August 23, 1863 John Frederick son of Christian and 

Wilhelmina Witzel, born 26 May 1863 
Baptised August 30, 1863, Elizabeth, daughter of Anna Leah and 

Gilbert Sayres, born July 7, 1863 
Baptised Oct 4, 1863 Thomas Hutchinson, born Feb 3, 1857 
Same time Charles Henry born Oct. 15, i860 
Same time Edward born 25, July 1863 Children of Thomas 

H. and Mary Elizabeth Vassar 
Same time Elmira Amelia 4Dorn 11 Oct. 1862 daughter of John 

Henry and Ellen Sophia Young 
Baptised Oct. 25, 1863 Anne Elizabeth daughter of Thomas 
j and Anne Hughes, born 25 June 1863 
Baptised August 7, 1864 Alexander son of Peter and Sylvia 

Thompson (col.) born Angus 7, 1863 



338 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Baptised August 14th 1864 Mary Ann Eliza, daughter of Chris- 
tian and Catherine Frederick (german) born June — 1864 

Baptised Sept. 28, 1864 Tarquinia Caro daughter of and 

Ellen Warren, born July loth 1862 

Baptised June 11, 1865 Mark Edward, son of George and Sarah 
Moses 

Baptised May 6, 1866 Lydia daughter of Gilbert and Anna L 
Say res born April 9th 1866 

Baptised August 7, 1866 Arabella Garold daughter of Peter and 
Sylvia Thompson. 



BAPTISMS BY THE REVD MR BLOOMER, A. D. 1780-90 



Date 



Name 



1780, June 


iSth 


Be Loyal 


Livingston 


1781, Mch 


12th 


Thomas Duncan 


(( 


29 


Margaret Willett 


April 


1st 


Elizabeth Hustead 


C( 


13th 


Martha Wiggins 


May 


4th 


Isaac 




It 

(1 


;; 


Johtn 
Esther 




<( 


" 


Joseph 


'Anderson 


May 


7th 


Clara 




<i 


tt 


AUetta 




<( 


it 


Sarah 




(( 


4th 


Jeremiah Anderson 


<( 


6th 


Mary Benton 


<t 


20th 


Harriet Pomerby 


July 


22 


Mary Dobbs 


August 


10th 


Ann Clout 


September 2nd 


Ann Payne . . 


" 


9th 


James Jervis 


" 


13th 


Joh« Jones 


" 


" 


Nicholas Jones 


" 


16th 


Elizabeth Dunbar 


(( 


21st 


Douwe Ditmus 


October 


5th 


Catherine Betts 


i( 


25th 


Ann Prichard 


December 


6th 


Thomas Wilkins 





26th 


Aletta Vaughn 


1782 






January 


6th 


Addison Clarke 


i( 


8th 


Thomas Home 


" 


9th 


Mary Smith 


" 


20th 


Sarah Smith 


K 


22 


Joseph Ely 


February 


6th 


Sarah Mo 


ore 



Parents 
Philip Livingston 
Daniel & Arabella Ludlow 
John & Ann Waters 
Jabez & Mary Hustead 
Stephen Wiggins 



Jonathan & Mary Anderson 



William & Elizabeth Anderson 
Peter & Ann Benton 
Josiah & Ann Pomerby 
Jarvis & Elizabeth Dobbs 
Thos & Catherine Clout 
Gerard & Sarah Beekman 

Thomas & Joanna Ganong 
Nicholas Jones 

John & Alletta Dunbar 
Douwe & Catherine Ditmus 
Thos & Susanna Welling 
Anthony & Phebe Terril 
Isaac & Isabella Wilkins 
Wm & Aletta Vaughn 

Heman & Hannah Clarke 
Thomas & Margaret Smith 

do 

do 
Joseph & Sarah Ely 
Nathaniel & Johna<ia Moore 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



339 



1783 



March 2lst Elizabeth Channiflg 

" 31 Phebe Burger 

April 7th James Herny 

" 9 Eugunrea Haviland 

May 5th George Boning 

June 2nd Abram Moore & 

" " Nathaniel Moore 

August l7th John Dunbar 

18th Mary Houlroyd 
September l5th Stephe4i Higgins 
" " Hannah & Mary & 

October 22d Samuel 

" 23d Catherine Whitehead 

December 24th James Henry 



1784 



1785 



January I9th Nathaniel Fish 

23d Ann 
February 2nd Gilbert Dawson 
May isthMargaret & 

Sarah Willet 
June 28th Marinus Willet 

July 25th Agnes Betts 

27th Peter Fairchild 
" Balthus 
September 7th Frances 

John Clark 
" " Ann Dashwood 

November 9th Elizabeth 

January 5th Lucretia Wiggins ( 

" " Richard Wiggins ( 

" " Mary Wiggins 

18 William 

March 27th Ann Carpenter 

September 5th Ann 

5th Samuel Gregson 



January 



May 
June 



lOth Thomas Colgan 
11th Catherine 
14th Beinjamin 
22d Thomas Alsop 
5th Charles 
lOth James Hallet 
— John Begaw 
Mary Strictland 



July 

October 

Novr 

November 20th 
27 



1786 



3d Richard Lawrence 

2d Augustus 

13th Richard 
Eloisa 
Cornelius Rapelai 



January 



I5th Aletta 
" John Polhemus 



Revd. Thomas & Judah Moore 
John & Miniam Burger 
Philip & Susanna Herny 
David & Mary Haviland 
James & Elizabeth 
Abram & Mary Berrian 
do 

John & Mary Houlroyd 
Simon & Margaret Higgi*is 

Isaac & Mary Petit 

Daniel & Catherine Whitehead 

John & Sophia McDonald 

William & Jane Moore 
Elihu & Ann Hume 
Henry & Elizabeth Dawson 

James & Sarah Morell 
William & Aletta Vaughn 
Johfl & Ann Waters 
Thomas & Elizabeth do 
Stephen & Esther Delancy 
Danl. & Arabella Ludlow 
Heman & Hannah Clark 
Francis & Elizabeth Lewis 
Thomas & Elizb. Cornell 

Adults 

Richard & Ann Wiggins 
William & Jane Rearden 
John Carpenter 
John & Mary Hinksman 
Samuel & Mary Turner 

Daniel & Catherine Whitehead 
Daniel & Mary Kissam 
Jacob & Elizabeth Moore 
Richard & Abigail Alsop 
John & Margaret Houlroyd 
Stephen & Rebecca Hallet 
Isaac & Susanna do 
(Adult) Wife of Jonathan 

Strictland 
Jonathan & Mary Strictland 
Son of John & Mary do 
Charles Welling 
Francis & Eliz. Lewis 
David & Mary Purdy 

John & Ann Waters 
John & Sarah Polhemus 



340 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



May 



20th 



1787 



September 1st 



Hannah Waynman 

Benjami« 

Ann 

Wm David 



Adult 

Joseph & Lydia Burrows 
William & Hannah Waynman 
David & Patience Titus 



January 

Ju4ie 
July 

August 
October 

Novr 



1788 



Feby 

<{ 
March 

April 

May 

June 



1789 



July 
Aug 
Nov 

March 



1st 
I7th 
24th 
l5th 

19th 
1st 

28th 
3d 

12th 



Edwin Bardin David & Catherine Whitehead 

Elizabeth Johfl & Margaret Holroyd 

Susannah Isaac & Sus Begaw 

John & William & Bkke-ney & Catherine Bon- 
Thomas & Christopher (chias 

Gabriel Ludlow Francis & Elizabeth Lewis 

John Shoals Jacob & Elizabeth Moon 

Susannah Betts Adult 

A^in Smith Adult 

Daniel Thorn Hutchins & Ann Smith 



January 1st 

4th 
6th 
25 



27 

1st 

4th 

7th 

14th 

17th 

2d 

9th 

13th 

27th 

25th 

ii 

22 



29th 



27th 
3 1st 
30th 



John, George & 

Elizabeth 
Mary Baker 
George Baker 
Jonathan Underbill 
Sarah, Hannah, 

William & Mary & 

Ann 
Maria An>n 

Sarah Hyatt 
Sarah, Thomas & Anna 
Jane Templeton 
Jane Creed 
Jane Wiggins 
Cornelius 
John Vanpelt 
William Pettit 
Helecha Jones 
Mary Thatford 
Elizabeth Baker 
Sarah 

Joseph Roe 
Fanny 

John & Sarah 
Francis Field 
Deborah Smith Field 
Sarah Field 
Hannah Field 
Waters Smith Field 
Richard Field 
Stephen Field 
John 
Sarah 
Elizabeth 



George Baker 

do do 

Adult 
Adult 
Jonathan & Hannah Underbill 



Samuel & Ann Brownjohn 
Adult 

Cornelius & Sarah Hyatt 
Oliver & Catherine Templeton 
Hewlett & Charlotte Creed 
Richard & An« Wiggins 
David & Mary Purdy 
Thomas & Eliz. Kelly 
Isaac & Mary Pettit 
Jonathan & Rebecca Jones 
"John & Charity Thatford 
^George & Hannah Baker 
*lsaac and Rhoda Hewlett 
An Adult 

James & Sarah Morrell 
John & Elizabeth Voorhoes 



Adults 



23d Richard Mortoin 



Samuel Eldert 

Wm & Hannah Waynman 

John & Sarah Troup 

Adult 



*These were baptised by Rev. Thomas Moore. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



341 



1790 



1791 



Sept 


13th 


Thomas 


November 


19th 


Charlotte 


May 


2d 


William James 


" 


16th 


John 


" 


23d 


Jane 


<( 


30th 


Levinah 

Nelly 


August 


1st 


William 


" 


25th 


James De Puyster 


October 


18th 


Wm Waters 
Hannah Waters 


(1 


" 


Ann Waters 


<i 


(( 


Margaret Waters 


November 


8th 


Edward Greenoak 






Sarah Greenoak 
Sarah Lawrence 
Elizabeth Lawrence 
Elizabeth Greenoak 
Martha Hare 
Elizabeth Dalto« 


<< 


" 


Mary Hallet 


(< 


<< 


Samuel Hare 


It 

u 


(< 


Nathaniel Greenoak 
Benjamin Hallet 


<< 


■ ( 


David Titus 


<( 


" 


Nathaniel Greenoak 


<< 


(( 


Deborah Greenoak 


<( 


" 


Maria 


<( 


(( 


Rebecca Moore 


<( 


" 


Lydia Moore 


(< 
(1 


(1 


Nathaniel Moore 
Richard 


" 


22d 


Isaac 


" 


28th 


Anna 


Febry 


16th 


Sarah 


" 


27th 


Samuel 


March 


9th 


John 


" 


13th 


Benjamin Daniel 


" 


23d 


William 


" 


27th 


Nathaniel Renney 


May 


9th 


Daniel Thorn 




u 


Bathsheba Thorn 
Mary Thorn 


'< 


22dElizabeth Vanpelt 


June 


20th 


Catherine 


July 


lOth 


Elena Allen 
Clarissa & James 
Isaac 


" 


I6th 


Mary 


August 


7th 


Salley Fish 




14 til 


Thomas Willet 



Samuel & Ann Brownjohn 
John & Sarah Hicks 

Wm & Hannah Way^man 
Wm & Mary Aspinwall 
Hulet & Charlotte Creed 
David & Mary Purdy 
Isaac & Susannah Begaw 
William & Martha Smith 
Jacob & Mary Ogden 



Adults 



Joseph & Mary Hallet 
Edward & Sarah Greenoak 
Melancthon & Sarah Lawrence 



Stephen & Rebecca Hallet 



Edward & Sarah Lawrence 
Isaac & Rhoda Hewlett 
John & Charity Thatford 

Isaac & Mary Pettit 
Samuel & Elizabeth Sackett 
John & Sarah Troup 
Saml. & Elizabeth Welling 
John & Mary Hinchman 
Adult 

Adults 

Thomas & Elizabeth Kelley 

Morris & Catherine Hazzard 

Adult 

James & Elena Allen 

Richard Peck 

Daniel & Mary Kissam 

John & Afln Waters 

Daniel & Catherine Whitehead 



342 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



BAPTISMS BY THE REVD MR. HAMMEL, A. D. 1791 



Date 
A. D. 1791 
August 15th 



18th 
September 25th 



October 



2nd 



Name 

Mrs. Nancy Buckbee 

Abigail 

Hannah 

Benjamin 

Patience Susannah 

Mary 

Kendel 

Ale.xander 

Mrs Anna Roe 

Lawrence Roe 

Betsey Roe 

Ann Cornell 

Marth 

Richard 

William 

Samuel 

Abraham 

Isaac 



November 


13th 


Catherine 
Sarah 


• 4 


20th 


Sarah 


November 


29th 


Margaret 


December 


26th 


John 


1792 






January 


20th 


Sarah Tompkins 
Hannah Buckbee 
Edward 
John 


• » 


22nd 


John 


** 


29th 


Anna 

Roloef Duryee 


Feby. 


15th 


Eliza 


March 


11th 


Elizabeth Ann 




22d 


Cecilia Gold 


April 


4th 


Elizabeth 


'< 


6th 


Maria 


" 


24th 


George 


May 


28 


Thomas 

Anna 

Samuel Hallett 

Joseph 

David 


June 


4th 


Lydia 

Mary Berrian 


" 


24 


James Henry 


August 


18th 


Elizabeth 


September 30th 


Obadiah Paul 



Sponsors 



Benj. & Nancy Buckbee 

John & Sarah Hicks David Titus & Sns. Evers 

Jacob & Susannah Vanpelt I. V. Pelt & Mary V. Pelt 
John & Deborah Dunn 

Adults 



Wm & Martha Lowerre 



Wm & Catherine Weaver 

Benj & Nancy Buckbee 
Wm & Martha Puntlne 
James & Elizabeth Moore 

Adults 

Josephine & Sarah 

Thompkins 
John Hutchins & Ann Smith 
Richard & Anna Wiggins 

John & Catherine Hlncksman 
Jonathan & Hannah Underbill 
Francis & Elizabeth Lewis 
Hulett & Charlotte Creed 
Samuel & Catalina EldreJ 
Daniel & Ellen Rapelyea 
David & Jemima Moore 



.Toseph & Mary Hallett 
Stephen & Rebecca Hallett 
John & Elizabeth Voorhase 
Isaac & Susanna Bergen 
Obediah & Sarah Leech 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



343 



BAPTISMS BY THE REVD. WILLIAM HAMMELL 



Date 
A. D. 1792 

October 21st 

Novr 25th 

Deer 23 

Deer 15th 

1793 

March 17th 

April 28th 

May 12th 



2nd 
9th 
14th 
21st 
28th 



June 
July 



31th 

September 1st 

15th 

29th 

Octr 23d 



Novr 
Deer 



1794 
February 



19 

1st 



15th 
29th 

2nd 

5th 

9 

26th 



Name 

Wm. Henry 
David 
Jane 
Jenny 
Wm Betts 

Nathaniel Lewis 

Sarah 

Wm Simmonds 

Joannah Smith 

Martha 

Ann Lewis 

Martha Prien 

Thomas 

Robert 

William Lawrence 

David 

Mary Lawrence 

Eldred 

Judith Roosevelt 

Thomas 

Abby Morrell 

Elizabeth Burling 

John Morrell 

Sarah Morrell 

Catherine 

Clarissa Rodman 

Horatio Gates 

Mary Fowler 

Jane Fowler 

Margaret Roe 

Thomas Roe 

Nathaniel Roe 

Gilbert Roe 

Benj. Roe 

Silas 

Eliza 

Anna 

Elizabeth 

John 

Mary Ann 

Nathaniel 
Thomas 
EUenor 
Elizabeth 



Parents 

Wm & Catherine Hammel 
David & Mary Purdy 
Joseph & Mary Yandle 
Isaac & Mary Petitt 
Charles & Sarah McDavid 

Nathaniel & Elizabeth Betts 
Samuel & Elizabeth Welling 
An Adult 

Monson & Lucretla Hoyt 
Wm & Sarah McKrell 
Chas. & Sarah McDavid 
John & Charity Thatford 
Thos. & Susanna Halght 
John & Sarah Troup 
An Adult 
Wm Lawrence 
Thos. & Abigail Billup 
Saml. & Catalina Eldred 
Timothy & Sarah Roach 
Wm & Eve Hannahs 
Adults 

Adults 

Morris & Catherine Hazzard 
Francis & Elizabeth Lewis 

Adults 

Joseph & Ann Roe 



Garret & Cornelia Nostrand 

Nathaniel & Elizabeth Betts 

William & Elizabeth Betts 
John & Sarah Hicks 
John & Mary Hlncksman 
Henry & Winnifred Van Allen 



Jamaica 

Newtown 
Jamaica 



Flushing 
Jamaica 
Newtown 
Jamaica 

Newtown 
Jamaica 
Newtown 
Flushing 
New Town 

Jamaica 

Newtown 

Flushing 



Newtown 
Flushing 



Jamaica 

Newtown 
Flushing 
Jamaica 
Newtown 



IX 
THE BOOK OF BURIALS 



OF GRACE CHURCH 347 



TOMBSTONES AND BURIALS IN GRACE CHURCH 

YARD. 

Jamaica, L. I. Aug. 19, 1885. 
To the Rector, Church Wardens & Vestrymen of Grace Church. 
Gentlemen. 

This Httle book contains a list of interments &c. in your 
church yard from 1773 to 1820; & funeral bells for some buried 
elsewhere who were not Episcopalians. It will be of great 
use to the genealogist, as many persons were buried & no 
tombstones put up. Some stones were put under the church 
when the edifice of 1822 was extended over the graves. They 
also are lost to us. 

This book will give a record of many deaths not elsewhere 
to be found, this book is, therefore, unique. As such I present 
it to you & hope it may be carefully kept for future & present 
reference. 

I also have added a copy of the insciptions on the tombstones 
in the older portions of the yard, made in 1846. They can be 
read here without a visit to the yard. Yours very Respectfully, 

HENRY ONDERDONK JR. 

INTERMENTS IN GRACE CHURCH YARD 

FROM 1773 TO 1820, 
AS COPIED BY HENRY ONDERDONK, JR., 

from the account book of Aaron VanNostrand, the sexton. Also 
his charges for tending the pall and ringing funeral bells for those 
buried elsewhere. 

1773 

Feb, 3. Robart Hinchman for sister Mary, a funeral bell 3/, use 

of pall 4/ 
Ap 21 Mr. Roberson of Whitestone digging grave for your 

child 3/ 
Aug II. Mrs. Mary Smith, bell for your mother. 



348 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



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OF GRACE CHURCH 349 



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350 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Sept 3 Mr. Sackett, putting up tombstone i/ 

Sept 19 O. B. Mills for yr son, & bell of Dutch church 3/ 

Oct 3 Mr. John Ennes, grave for yr wife 6/ 

Oct 20 John Willett, for pall 

1774 

Mar 21 Mrs. Mills funeral bell for Rev. Mr. Mills 5/ 

Ap 27 Mrs. Lashly for Mr. Lashlie (Leslie) 

May 20 Jas TafTers, grave for Jas Tafifers. 

Jul 24 Mrs. Rapelye, bell for Mr. John Rapelye 5/ & of D. ch. 5/ 

Sep 2 Mrs. Betts for Mrs. Fish's child, bell. 

Sep 26 Mr. Moerl (Morrell) for pall 4/ 

Nov 15 Rich. Betts for 2 graves 

1775 

5 or 10 Garret Latten's executors, bell & pall 
Feb 24 John I. Troup taking up (floor of the) church 5/ 
Mar 21 Jacob Duryea, bell for yr father 
Ap 28 Ob. Mills, for Mrs. Hicks. " 

1775 

June 4 John Smith for yr mother 
Aug 26 Mrs Ditmas, yr husband's grave, pall & bell 
Sept 15 John Hitton yr child 
Oct 13 John Ennes yr father's grave 
Nov 6 Nich. Jones yr child 
Nov 20 Chas Crommeline, pall 
Dec 20 John Polhemus, yr mother 
Dec 30 David Lamberson, yr wife 
1776 

Feb 8 Mrs. Combs for Gilbert Combs 
Feb 28 Samuel Skidmore, yr child 
Ap 21 Mr. (christr.) Smith for Mrs. Colgan taking up & putting 

down church floor 6/ 
Aug 6 David Lamberson, yr child 
Aug 6 Mrs. Nostrand, pall 
Sep 3 Wm. Thadford for Mr. Thadford 
Sep 4 Jos Dunbar, yr child 
Sep 5, 6, 7 Three soldier's graves 18/ 
Sep 13 Mr. Suydam, yr child 
Sep 17 Benj. Wiggin's Estate, grave 
Sep 22 David Colden, pall, 
Sep 26 Daniel Whitehead, yr child 



OF GRACE CHURCH 351 

Sep 26 Jos Burting, yr child 
Sep 26 Winant Van Zandt, yr child 
Sep 27 Joshua Carpenter, yr wife 
Sep 27 Jacob Carpenter, yr father 

Sep 29 Chas McEvers for Mrs Brockels, inviting & tending 8/ 
Oct I Jos Horsfield, yr child, "half a funeral bell" 2/6 
Oct I Daniel Whitehead, yr child 
Oct 2 Nath'l Higby, yr child 
1776 

Oct 6 Samuel Mills, yr wife 
Oct 8 Samul Skidmore, yr child 
Oct 12 Nath'l Denton, yr father 
Oct 17 Jos Oldfield, yr child 
Oct 18 John Bergen, yr child 
Oct 20 Jos Oldfield, yr child 
Oct 28 Jos Oldfield, yr child 
Oct 29* Abm. Ditmas, pall 
Nov I John Smith for Robt. Howel 
Nov 2 Abm. Colyer, yr child 
Nov 4 Mrs. Betts, bell for June Polhemus 
Nov 6 Jacob Carpenter, yr wife 
Nov 10 Hope Mills Jr., yr child 
Nov 12 Jacob Dean, yr child 
Nov 20 Jacob Tyler, yr child 
Nov 18 Chas McEvers, for Mrs. Johnson 
Dec I Mr. Smith, for Mrs Hammersly's child 
Dec 8 Mrs. Betts yr husband Thos Betts. 
Dec 30 Rulef Durye, yr child 
1777 

Feb 15 John Brimmer, for Gone Nesbert 
Mar 7 Thos Welling, for Mrs Tanner 
Ap 4 Jos Dunbar, yr wife 
Ap 7 John Mesnerg (Messenger) yr brother 
Ap 17 John Mesnerg, "for Isaac Roods 
Ap 20 Hope Mills, for Peter Colyer 
Ap 20 Amos Denton, bell for yr brother 
May 21 Jas Huston, yr child 
May 21 Nath'l Mills for yr brother Obadiah 
Aug 5 Nath'l Mills for yr sister 
Aug 14 Josh Van Brunt, yr child 



352 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Aug 23 Major James, for Thos Day from Yorkshire Eng. 

Aug 25 Thos Hinchman, yr child 

Sept 6 John Polhemus, yr child 

Oct 3 Geo Dunbar, yr child 

Oct 9 Alexr. Walles (Wallace) yr child 

Oct 13 Alexr. Walles (Wallace), yr child 

Oct 29 Tunes Polhemus, yr child 

Nov 19 Saml Moore, for Molly Williamson 

Nov 24 Rich. Betts, yr wife 

Dec 13 Mrs. Higby, yr husband 

Dec 23 John Wiggins Jr. yr child 

1778 

Jan 4 Isaac Peltit, yr child 

Jan 10 Jas Huston, yr child 

Jan 28 Benj. Everet, a child for a woman at John Skidmore's 

Feb I Mr. Patte(r) son, "to digging a grave" 6/ 

Feb 12 Sam'l Cornell, pall 

Mar 17 Phillip Van Cortland, yr child 

Mar 20 John Snedeker, grave for Evert Van Wicklen's wife 

Mar 21 Benj. Creed, bell for yr father 

Mar 28 Nehemiah Coe, yr wife 

Ap 15 Mrs. "Tansly", yr child 

May 2 Mrs. Smith, yr son 

Ju 17 John Cockel, bell 

July 18 Jas Depeyster, for Jos Read, inviting & grog 10/, four 
carriers at i Pound 12. 

July 19 Mrrs. Weatherhead, grave, grog for carriers 2/, 4 car- 
riers, 8/ each 

July 24 Mr. Drumman (Drummond), his bell. 

July 29 Anne Hincksman, grave for Betty & funeral bell 

Aug 7 Anne Hincksman, grave for Obadiah & do. 

Aug 7 Col. James, pall for yr wench. 

Aug 12 Mrs. Latten, yr husband (Garret) 

Aug 14 Mrs. Mills, yr grandchild 

Aug 18 Mr. Patson, yr child 

Aug 30 Isaac Ogden, yr child 

Sept 3 Col. Lawrence, yr child 

Sep 7 Jas "Wararop", pall 

Sep 16 Nath'l Roods, child for woman at John Skidmore's 

Sep 25 Mrs. Skidmore, bell for yr husband 



OF GRACE CHURCH 353 

Sep 26 Hoal (Howel) Smith, yr child 
Oct 10 Jos Field, yr wife 

" " Jacob Tyler, yr child 

" 13 Parish, Mr. "Huchens" 

" 25 John Smith yr child 

" 29 Nehemiah Coe, yr child 

" 31 Howel Smith, yr child 
Nov. 3 Robt. Morrell, Flushing, by Jas Eager, pall 

" 18 Mr. Losson, bell for a man 

20 Capt. of 6ist. Light Infantry, a soldier of 63d. 

" 21 Mr. Lot, a man 

" 32 Robt. Hinchman, yr brother Benjm. 
Dec 4 Capt. Montgomery, for Capt. Graham 37th. Reg. Gren- 
adier. 
Dec. 5 Cors. Bennet, grave for Mrs. Higby 

" 5 John Hincksman, yr child. 

" 21 Benj. Smith, yr mother 

" 31 John Roods, for Mrs "Stunfsent". 

" 25 Chas McEvers, wife Mary, inviting and tending 12/, 
bell 5/ six carriers 2 pounds 8. pall 8/ 
1779 

Jan 3 Benj. smith, yr father. 
Feb 4 Mrs. Rose for Mrs van "Waggen" 

Feb 9 for yr wife 

Feb 24 Saml. Skidmore sr., bell for Robt. Denton 

Mar 6 Jos French, for French captain 

Ap 14 Aaron Von Nostrand, yr child 

Ju 4 Derick Bergen, yr wife 

July 15 M. Lott, for young woman 

" 7 Jacob Ogden, for mrs. van Hoock 
Aug 7 Mrs. Steed's executors, her grave 
Aug 14 Nath'l Mills, yr wife 
" 18 John Cornell, for John Cornell "at Ferry". 
" 31 Robt. Denton's Executors, bell 
" 30 John Stone, yr father 
Sept I Nathl. Mills executor, his grave 

" 12 Mrs. Brewerton, Col. Brewerton, cleaning the church 
12/ digging grave burying corpse i pound 12 inviting 16/, 
bell 5/ 

" 28 Ben. Creed, bell for yr wife 



354 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

" 30 Hope Mills, yr child 
Oct 8 Mr. Ogden, for Mr. John Colyer, (Coyler), pall, bell, 
six carriers. 

" 10 , a french captain 

" " Mr. (Geo.) Folliot, "for Mrs. "Snocke" pall, bell, in- 
viting carriers. 

" 14 Luke Bergen, yr son 

" 27 John Gatter, yr child 
Nov. 2 John Doughty for Geo. "Bacti" 

" 18 Mrs. Thadford, yr daughter. 

" 27 , yr child 

Dec. 17 Major Bowden, yr wife, carriers &c. 

" 19 John Smith, yr wife : & digging up a soldier's wife & 
burying her again 32/ 

" 21 Mrs. Dean, yr husband 
1780 

Jan II Mr. Livingston for Mrs. Gould 
" 20 John Dunbar for Mrs. Willett 
" 29 Mr. Anderson, for Mr. "Goram's" child 
Feb 14 Mr. Burnet, for Mr. Williamson 
May II Tunis Bergen, yr brother John 

" 12 Daniel Whitehead, yr brother Benj. 

" 23 John "Stiles", yr son John, 4 carriers 

" Capt. Wilmot, for a young man 
Ju II Jost Van Brunt, yr child 
" 4 " " " yr wife 

Jul 6 Chas McEvers, Mr. Thomas' negro 
" 28 Mrs. Nancy Cebra, bell for yr mother 
" 10 Mr. MacKolye for Capt. Dickson 
Aug 27 Mrs. Willett, pall 

" 31 Wm. Dudley, yr mother 
Sept I Mrs. Thadford, for Mr. "Coffon" 

" 4 Mrs. "Clouse" (Clowes) for "Jan" Thane 

" 5 Mrs (Jacob) Ogden for Dr. Ogden & putting up stone 
2/ dollar lent to mr. Bellard. July 20 1784. 

" 6 Capt. Clout, yr child 

" 13 Gilbert Rose, yr child 

" 8 Daniel Whitehead, yr father (Capt. Benjn.) 

" 13 Thos Rochford for John's grave 

" 10 Edward Willett for Johana Clowes 



OF GRACE CHURCH 355 

" 14 Geo. Dunbar, yr child 

" " John Van Lue, "Nancychild" 6/ 

" 20 Mrs Horsfield, yr husband 

" 30 Mrs. Thadford, for a man 
Oct I Mrs Sackett, yr husband, tombstone 2/ 

" 3 John Snedeker, for Capt. Bowers 

" 4 Capt. Anderson, yr child 

" 5 Edward Willett, yr wife 
1780 

Oct 9 Mrs. Macknelly, yr husband 

Oct 15 Sarjent Towers for Sarjent "Stuerd" Gr. Mast. 23rd. 
Reg. Grenadiers. 

" 24 Gen. Delancy for Major Waller, digging grave 10/ bell 
5/ inviting and tending 16/, pall 4/ 

" 27 Mr. Hartang, yr child 
Nov. 5 John Stone, for Capt. "Stils" 

" 8 Capt. "Striman", yr child 
Dec I Capt. Ludlam, yr son 

" 12 Capt. Stringman, for mrs Fish 
1781 
Jan 2 Capt. Hoogland, pall 

" 12 Col. Hamilton, pall & attending, 8/, 4/ 

" 14 John Van Lue, pall for yr daughter 

" 26 Mr. gorum (Gorham), yr child 
Feb 23 John Gatore yr child 
Ap 19 Jas Huston, yr child 

Mar 13 Dr. Arding for Capt. Housman, Barrack Master 
May 17 Capt. Whitehead for Major Gilbert's wife 
" 21 "Leften" Ward, yr child 
" 30 Mrs Thadford, for a boy 
" 27 Mrs "Morronson", yr daughter 
Ju 29 John Bergen, yr child 
Jul 3 Rulef Durye, yr child 

" 4 Rich. Wiggins, yr child 

" 5 Major Gilbert, yr child 
Aug 3 Amos Mills, yr brother Samuel 
Aug 18 Capt "Clout", yr child 

" 25 Phillip Skinner, for Mrs Combes, 4 carriers, 32/ 

" 28 Jos "Feel" (Field), for mrs. Horsefield 
Sept 3 Wm. Steed, for mrs Ropkins' child 



356 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

" 7 Mr. Draper, yr child 

" " Left. Anderson, yr child 

" lo 

" 13 Capt. Hoogland, pall 

n J ii a u 

" 14 Nicholas Jones, yr wife 
" 23 Ensign Barnard, wife 
Oct 5 Capt. Stringman for Mrs "Catran" Betts 
" 8 Mrs Nancy Cebra, bell for yr sister 
" 9 Daw Ditmas, pall 
" 8 Wm. Steed, for Mrs. Ropkins' child 
Oct 19 Antony Terrel, yr child 
Nov 14 Mrs. Denton, yr husband 

" 25 Andrew Ritchie, yr wife, bell pall, tending 
" 30 Dr. "Feel" (Field) for laying yr wife (Cath. Brinley) 
aged 23 yrs. in church 5 pounds, grave i pound, 4 taking up 
church floor 12/ 4 carriers i pound 12, bell 5/ pall 4/, invit- 
ing &c 18/. 
Dec 30 Thos Rochford for Lieut. Steadman, 64th. Comp. Gren- 
adiers. 
1782 

5or 2 John Moore, yr daughter. 
" 13 Nicholas Jones, yr child 

" 18 Wm. Bogle for Mr. "Heggie", 4 carriers i pound 12. 
" 20 Mr. "Selye", yr child 
Feb 20 Mr. "Gorom", yr child 
May I Read "Riding", yr father 

" 4 Parish of Jamaica for one of Jas "Hesters" child 10/ 
" 17 John Waters, yr child 
Jul 12 Jas Creighton, yr mother (buried) in the church 20/ 

" 31 Dr. Smith, yr son in law's child. 
Aug 19 Major (Thos) Leonard, yr wife Mary 

Sep 2 for Major Campbell of 71st Reg. 

Sep 15 Thos Welling for Tunis Polhemus 
Oct 8 Anne Hinchman for yr brother Thomas 
1782 

Nov 7 Mrs Smith, yr husband 
" 16 Isaac Pettit, yr child 
" 27 Mrs Dunbar, yr husband 



OF GRACE CHURCH 357 

1783 

Feb 9 Wm. Puntine, yr child 

" 15 Jos Dunbar, yr child 

" 28 Wm. Gleane, yr daughter 
Ap 2 Parish of Jamaica "for one of James Heger" 8/ 

" 30 Capt. Betts for Capt. Thos Harriot 
Jul 2T, "Agent of Deneas Rigmant" grave for a Capt, bell, & pall 
Aug I Jas Creighton, for Capt. Solomon Davis, grave 10/ bell 

&pall 
Sep 16 John Van Lue, yr father 

Nov 17 Chas Mc Evers for Mrs Bibbe, tending & inviting 18/, 
bell & pall going to N. York 16/, 4 carriers 12/ 

" 30 Wm. Puntine yr child 
Dec 29 Parish of Jamaica, for Catharine Wiggins 
1784 

Jan 9 Jacob Bergen for Sias Smith 
Mar I Capt. Ludlam. yr wife 

" 28 Edward Bardin for Wm. "Bhemfeel" pall & bell 

" 30 Mr. Selye, yr child 
Ap 21 Mr. Sackett's Executors for Mrs Sackett 
May 9 Chas Mc Evers for child of Capt. Bibbs 

" 21 Amos Mills, for Joshua Carpenter, bell 5/ 
Aug 20 David Lamberson, bell 5/ 
Sep 17 Wm. Betts, yr wife 
Oct 12 John Williamson, pall & tending 4/ & 6/. 

" 26 Mr. Fleming, bell for yr child 
Dec 18 Mrs "Laddae", yr husband 

1785 

Ap 16 John H. Smith, yr father 12/ 

" 17 Gilbert Rose, yr wife 

" 19 Rev. Mr. Burnet, grave for yr child 4/ 
Sep 4 Jacob Durye, yr mother, bell 5/ 

" 15 John Bell, for Jas Slack 

" 21 Thos Welling, yr father 
1786 

Ap 29 Capt. Scot, tending funeral of yr wife 9/ 
May 24 Christopher Smith, "Ellick" 10/, bell 5/, tending 8/ 
Oct 24 Lambert Moore, pall 4/ 
Dec 4 Christr. Smith for Mr. "Shinlar" 

" 16 " " for Mrs. Hammersly in the church 16/ 



358 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

1787 

Jan 14 Jas Willett, pall for Judge Willett 

" 23 John Wiggins, yr daughter "Cresse" 8/ 
May I Mrs. Skidmore, bell 4/ 
Aug 18 Garret Borland, yr wife, bell & pall 
Sept 16 Chas. Welling, yr wife 

— ' John Smith, yr mother, Peter Smith's widow 

1788 

Jan 9 John Smith, yr wife, bell 5/ 
Feb 14 Jacob Carpenter, yr son, bell 5/ 

Jan 12 Christr. Smith Mr. Thos Colgan in the church 20/, tend- 
ing & cleaning the church 16/, pall, & bell 9/ 
Feb 28 Mr. Selye, yr child 8/ 
Mar 18 Mr. ■'Trau(v)es'\ yr daughter, bell 
Ju 7 John Hincksman, yr child 

" 18 Capt. I.udlam's Executors, for Capt. Ludlam 

Oct 28 Mr. Ilonne, for Mr. Smith — Thos Smith from Engla,nd 

1789 

Mar 13 " " for Martha "Holberd" 

" 17 Jost Van Brunt for Benj. Cornell's child 

" 23 " " " yr son Rutgert 
May — Daniel Tuttle, yr child 
July — Mr. Leffert for Mr. Conklin's child 5/ 
1790 

Jan 6 Willett Skidmore for Mrs Whitehead 3 funeral bells 14/ 
Feb 4 Daniel Tuttle for John Tuttle 
May 17 Timothy Denton, bell 
Ju 24 Christr. Smith for Rev. Joshua Bloomer, in the church 20/ 

cleaning church 4/ tolling bell 3 times 15/, 
Jul 24 Daniel "Kissam" (lawyers) for Mrs. Betts, Sarah. 
Aug 17 Piatt Smith for Mrs, Smith 

'' 23 Benj. Carpenter yr grandson John Sutherland 
Sep 5 Mrs. Mary Steed, yr husband Mr. Steed 

" 10 Benj. Carpenter, Mrs. Sutherland's child Jennet open- 
ing grave. 

" 22 Dr. Ogden, Mrs. Ogden & bell 
Oct 14 John Gleen, yr father. 
Nov. 18 Mr. Hewlett, yr child 
Dec. 20 Mr. Rowland, vr wife's sister 



OF GRACE CHURCH 359 

1791 

Ap 27 Mr Selye, yr wife 

Jan 3 Abm. Ditmas & Walter Smith overseers of poor of 
Jamaica grave for John Moore 8/ bell 3/ 
" 18 Jas Waters, yr sister Oeggy, bell & pall, the other two 
bell 6/ 
May I Mr. Lewis, pall for (Mr.) Robt Crommeline 4/ (He d. 
Sp. 28. age 7s) 
" 10 Mr. Fairchild for Mrs Sherlock 
" 14 Jeremiah Valentine, yr wife 
Aug 9 Samuel Sackett for Jos Sackett 
Oct 16 " " yr child 

De 20 Jas Waters, yr child 
1792 

Jan 16 Mrs Whitehead, yr husband (Capt Danial W.) 
Feb 16 Wm. Smith, bell for Mrs Borland's child 
May 2 Aaron V. Nostrand, my son Joseph 
May 28 Mrs Herriman, bell 
Nov 8 John Williamson, yr child 

1793 

Jan 25 Benj. Carpenter Mrs Sutherland's child Maria died feb. 28 

Ap 10 Isaac Pettit, yr child 

Jul 19 Wm Bellerd, yr child & "moving of it" 6/ 

31 Mary Colyer, grave for her son in law Holstead's child 

1793 

Aug 23 Benj. Carpenter for Kezia Combs 

" 24 Jas Waters, yr child 
Aug 30 John Messenger, bell for Rich. Roods 
Sep I Nath'l Beets, yr child 
Sep 6 Jos Morris (barber), bell 
Nov I Jas Waters, yr child 

" 18 Stephen Voris, bell 
Dec 8 Thos Betts, yr sister 

1794 

Jan 21 Obadiah Leech, yr child 
Feb 8 Wm Ludlum's Executors, bell 
Sep 10 Capt. Conklin. bell for yr wife 

" 13 Jas Lawrence, pall 

" 16 Amos Mills, bell for yr mother 
Oct 12 Jsaac Bennet, bell 



360 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Nov lo Jas Waters, yr child 

Dec lo Col. Willet, yr father, 3 bells 15/ 

" 15 Major Mc Neill yr child, 3 bells 15 

" 28 Benj. Carpenter, yr father 

1795 

May I Sarah Hinchman, yr sister Nancy 

Ju 7 Mr. Cock, yr wife 

Jul 10 Thos Higby, bell for yr father 

Au 16 John Hinchman, bell for Mr. Purdy 

Sep 7 Aaron V Nostrand, yr son Thomas 

Oct II Thos Smith, yr mother, bell 

" 13 Wm. Warne, yr wife 
Oct 24 Nicholas Everet, bell for yr mother 
No 6 John Bergen, yr child 

" 30 Mrs. Nancy Cebra, bell for yr sister Catharine 
1796 

Jan 9 John Hinchman, yr son 
Mar 4 Hewlett Creed, bell for yr child 

'' 15 Sam'l Simmons, for Wm Simmons 

" 28 Benj. Carpenter, "grave for the Barran" 12/, bell & pall 
Ju 29 Jas Herriman, bell for Thos Denton 
Jul I Mr. Van Wicklen grave for Cap. Wood, bell & pall 
Aug 5 John Dudley, yr wife 

" 9 Christr. Smith, Mrs. "Abolwy" 

" 29 Mr. Beekman pall for yr father (Gerardus B.) 
Sep 19 John Hinchman, yr grandchild 
Nov 28 Jas Smith, bell for yr child 
1797 

Ap 30 Jas Smith, bell for yr child 
Aug 7 Christr. Smith, Fleming Colgan in the church 20/ bell 

& pall 9/, cleaning & airing the church 20/. 
Sept 5 Mrs. Rodman, yr husband, bell 

" 21 Jas Waters, Mr. (Wm. Martin) Johnson 12/, pall «& 
bell 9/ 
Oct 2 Wm. Warne, yr son Wm. 

" 23 Isaac Bennet, bell for yr mother 
Nov 30 Hewlett Creed, bell for yr child 
1798 
Feb I John Ditmas, yr mother 12/, bell & pall 



OF GRACE CHURCH 361 

Ap 28 Mrs Johnson, yr husband 12/ 

Ju 8 " " yr child 

May 25 Capt. Clarkson, yr father, bell, pall &c 

Ju 19 Benj. Carpenter, yr mother 

Sep 6 Chas Rouch, for Mr Warne 

Oct I Rev. Mr. Kitletus's estate, bell 5/ 

Nov 12 Mrs Brownjohn, Mr. Hubbard's (child) grave 8/ 

De 17 Piatt Smith Jr., for Mrs Brown 

1799 

Jan. 8 Jos Thatford, yr child. 

1799 

Mar 16 Josiah Brown, yr dau. Polly 

Ap 7 Wm. Prince, pall for Mrs Pane 

" 16 Josiah Brown, small grave 4/ 
Ju 13 Derick Bergen's estate, for Mr. Bergen 
Jul 27 Capt. Depeyster, yr father "departing" bell 3/ grave 12/ 

inviting 12/. bell & pall 
Aug 10 Thos Smith, small grave for yr son's child 4/ 
Sep 8 Mrs "Dufifel", yr child 
1800 

Jan 25 Amos Mill's Executors, bell for Amos Mills 
Mar 6 Mr. Doelard, yr wife 

Ap 5 Nancy Whitehead, yr mother, tolling bell 2/, grave 10/ 
May 3 Josiah Brown, small grave 

" 24 Daniel Kissam 3^r wife 
Sept I Jost Van Brunt Jr, yr child 

" 3 Nath'l Roods, bell for yr mother 5/ 

" 10 Benj. Creeds Executors, bell for him 

" 22 Carey Dunn bell for yr wife 

" 26 John Van Brunt, yr child 
Oct I Mr. Dheland, yr child 
Dec 6 Gilbert Rose, yr child 

" 7 John Bremner, bell 

" 14 Nath'l Denton, bell 

" 31 John Thatford, yr mother 
1801 
Mar 24 Capt. Hoogland, pall 

" 15 Mr. Woolfenden, yr dau. 

" 30 Jas Waters, Mrs Smith's bell 

" 31 Wm. Prince, pall for Mrs Browne 



362 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

" " Jas Van Lew, yr grand mother, bell 
May 13 Benj. Thurston, yr mother, bell. 
Ju 14 Willett Skidmore "Mr. Hendrs" daughter 
Ju 20 Jas Foster, yr child, bell 
" 21 John Messenger, yr sister, bell 
Aug 16 John I Skidmore, yr wife, bell 
Oct I Daniel "Balye's" (Baylis) Executors, bell for him 

'' 2 Hewlett Creed, yr child, bell 
Oct 8 Major Mc Neil, yr child 

" 26 Mr. Selye. yr child 
1802 
Jan 2 Benj. Carpenter, Mrs Sutherland 

" 10 John Messenger, bell for yr father, digging grave 
Feb 8 " " taking him up & moving him 16/ 

" 17 John Thatford, putting up 3 tombstones 8/ 

" 24 David Sprong, bell for Mr. Van Lew 5/. bell of Dutch 
church 5/ 

" 25 John Rood's estate, bell for Mr. John Roods 
Ap 6 Jas Creighton, grave for Dn Ogden 12/. bell 5/ 
May 14 Mrs Creed, bell 

" 20 Mr Genet, yr child, bell 
Ju 7 Capt. Depeyster, yr sister, 12/. Dutch church bell 5 meet- 

ingbell 9/ bell 5/ pall 8/ inviting 12/ 
" 17 Jos Tuttle, yr wife, bell 
Jul 8 Jacob Bergen, bell for Tunis Bergen 
Aug 2 Hewlett Creed, yr child, bell 

" 23 Capt. (Zebediah) Story's estate, his, bell 
Sept 3 Jas Waters' estate, his grave 
Oct 12 Isaac Roods, bell for yr child 
Oct 31 Rev Mr. "Fuethes", bell for Mrs "Tittes". 
Nov 2 Jacob Bergen. Abm. Bergen's bell 

" 15 Daniel Ludlum, yr wife, bell 
De 17 Capt. Depeyster, grave for yr mother 

" 20 Wm. Ludlum, yr son, bell 
1803 
Jan 10 Thos Welling, for Mrs Polhemus 

" 16 John Hinchman Jr, yr son John's wife 
Mar 23 Nath'l Ludlum, yr mother, bell 
" 25 Luke Bergen's estate, bell for him 
" 31 Wm. Puntine, yr wife 



OF GRACE CHURCH ^ 363 

May 9 Josiah Brown, Mrs Dickens' child 

" lo Ann Bergen's estate, bell 

" " Jas Mackrell Sr., grave for Mrs Fish 
Ap 21 Chas Smith, bell for yr father 
May 31 David Springsteen, pall 

Ju 3 Mr. Lefifert's estate, grave for him (Isaac Lefferts) 
Jul 24 Capt. Depeyster, for Miss Eve Depeyster 
Aug 24 Josiah Brown, yr dau. 
Sep 3 Rev. (Calvin) White, yr childs grave 

" 4 Abm. Skinner, yr mother Margaret (age 74.5.5.) 

" 5 Mr. "Colter", pall 

" 13 Nich. Everet Jr's estate, bell for Mrs. Everet 

" 21 Wm. Puntine, yr child 
Nov 8 John D. Smith, yr wife, bell 

" 13 Hewlett Creed, yr child, bell 
1804 

Jan 25 Capt. John Dawson, for Mr. Comes 
Jan 29 Mrs Fish's estate, bell 

Feb 4 John Skidmore, yr wife, Dutch & Meeting bells.12/ 
Mar 21 Thos Balye (Baylis), yr wife, bell 5/ 
Ap 8 Christr. Smith, yr wife (Mary Colgan.bell 6/. age 71 
May 9 John I Skidmore's estate, his bell 
Ju 1 1 Othniel Smith, yr mother, bell 
Aug 22 Mrs Hazard mr. Delafield, inviting son 8/ 
Aug 26 Major Mc Neil, yr child 

" 29 Increase Carpenter, yr son, bell 
Oct 25 Abiathar Roods, yr sister Van Dam. bell 
Nov 8 John Rood's estate, his widow 

" 12 Nich, Everet, yr son, bell 

" 22 Jacob Carpenter, bell for Mrs. Oakley 
1805 

Jan 17 John Everet's estate, his bell 
" " Benj. Thurston's estate, his bell 
" 31 Christr. Smith's estate, digging away the snow 16/ he 

died Jan 29 
Feb 4 Mr. Jas Morrell for Mr. "Miers" 16/ 
Jan 31 John Everet's estate, bell for his widow 
Ap 19 John Hinchman's estate (his) grave for John Hinchman 
May I Frank Masten's estate (his) bell for Mr. Masten. 

" 9 Daniel Everet's estate, bell for Mr Everet 



364 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Ju 14 Mr Jas Smith's estate, bell for Mrs. Smith 
Sept 30 Danial Gracy, bell for yr wife 
Dec 8 Parish of Jamaica, for Wm Betts 

" " John H Smith's estate, pall 

" II Jost Van Brunt Jr., yr child 
i8v-'6 
Jan 5 Jas Morrel for Mrs Voris's child 

" 20 John Dunn, yr child 
Feb 8 Jas Mackrell sr, yr wife 

'* 13 Rich. Wiggins, yr mother 
Mar 9 Stephen Voris's estate, his bell 

" 13 Nich. Smith's estate, bell for Mrs Smith 
May 7 Jacamiah Valentine, his grave 
Ju 6 Benj. Hinchman, yr brother 
" 18 Stephen Hicks' yr dau. 
Jul 16 Nath'l Denton's estate, his bell 

" " Hewlett Creed his bell for his child 
Oct 10 Mrs P Smith, pall 
Ju 6 Capt. Daniel Thome's estate, pall 
" " Wm Prince, pall for Mrs Brown 
" " Mr. Garden, pall 

" " John Skidmore, sodding & putting up wife's tombstone 
Nov 16 " " grave for yr child 

" 20 John Dunn, yr child 
De 2 Abm. Coles yr wife 
1807 
Mar I Mrs Ann I Depeyster's estate wid of Jos. her grave 

" 20 Daniel Ludlum's estate, his bell 

" 26 Nath'l Smith at Cider Mill, bell for yr wife 
May 14 Mr. Nath'l Austin's estate, his grave 
Ju 21 Increase Carpenter's estate, bell 
" 15 Dudley Brown, yr wife 
Aug 15 Josiah Brown, for Mr. John Dudley 

" 24 Aaon V. Nostrand, yr wife 12/ 

" 31 Jacob Carpenter, bell for Benj. Wiggins 
Sep 13 Cors. Creed, bell for Mrs Ostrand 

" 18 Nich. Everets estate, bell for Mr. E 

" 20 late Nich. Smith's estate, bell for Mrs Smith 

" 22 Abm. Coles, yr father 
Oct 5 Caleb Mills, bell for Wid of Ob. Mills 



OF GRACE CHURCH 365 

Dec 6 Sheriff Wyckoff. bell for yr dau, 

1808 

Jan 31 John Bremner's estate, his bell, died Jan 29 

Ap 14 Wm. Prince, pall for Mrs. Stratton 

" 28 Thos Martin, bell yr wife 
Ju 13 Jost Van Brunt Jr., yr Wife 
" 26 Mr. Disosway, pall 
Jul 6 David Rowland for Wm. Taylor 
Aug 22 Mr. (Edward) Parker, bell yr wife 

" 30 Neh'h Hincksman, bell for aunt Phebe 
Sept 4 Mr. Griswolds' estate, grave for Thos G., inviting the 

clergy 4/ bell, pall bearers 
Nov 6 Wm. Puntine, for Mrs Price late from "Island". 

" 7 Mr. Eigenbrodt, yr child, bell 
Dec 14 John Wooffendale, yr mother 
1809 
Jan 12 Daniel Everet's estate, bell 

" 13 John Suydam's estate, pall 
Mar I Jas Mackerell Sr., bell for Ambrose Fish (a leaf or two 
seems lost) 
" 3 Neh'h Hincksman, bell for yr mother 
" 8 Jas Morrell for Mrs Miller 
Ap 2 Abiathur Roods estate, his bell 
" 9 Samuel Tuttle for Wm Ennis — p. by Overseers of poor. 
" 10 Mrs Creed's estate, (wid. of Benj. C.) bell & pall 
May 18 Wm. Bellerd. yr wife, bell 
Aug 16 Mr Carman, yr child 
" 26 Joe Rose, yr dau 
■' 30 Jas Morrell. for Mrs Miller's child 
Sep 28 Mr. Newman, yr wife 
Aug 30 Cary Dunn, yr child, bell 
Nov 12 Mr. John Troup, yr child in church & cleaning i pound 

6 chilings 
Dec 17 Mr. Newman, yr child 
1810 

Jan 21 Mr Gracy, yr child, bell 
" " Mr. Eliphalet Wickes, bell for Daniel Minema 
" 22 Jos Morris's estate, his bell 
Feb 5 Jos Thatford, yr wife 
Ap 5 John Ludlum's estate, his bell 



366 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

May 5 Daniel Kissam, pall 

" 20 Nath'l Ludlum's estate, his bell 

" 29 Neh'h Hinchman, bell for yr brother John 
Jul 22 Miss Clarissa Keteltas's estate, her bell 
Aug 21 Jas Morrell, yr wife 

Oct 28 Widow of Luke Bergen's estate, bell for yr widow 
Dec 2 Nich, Jones' estate for Mrs Jones 

" 20 Daniel Gracy, bell for yr wife 
181 1 
Feb 3 Chas Crommeline's estate, Pall 

" 26 Daniel Gracy, yr son bell 

" 27 Jos Dunbar, for Mrs Coles 
Mar 5 Cors. Lamberson, yr wife 

" 29 Caleb Mills, yr brother Nathaniel 
Ju 9 Simeon Smith, yr dau., bell 
Ju 17 Mr. Tuttle Reeve's estate, his funeral bell 
Jul 4 John Ditmas, yr child 
" 7 Thos Welling's estate, for Mr. Welling 
17 Samuel Carman, yr child 
Aug 13 Augustus Sackett, 3'r child 

" 15 Mr. Roberson. yr child 

" 22 Isaac Pettit, yr dau. 

" 28 Neh'h Smith's estate, his bell 
Sep 4 John Day Smith, yr son, bell 
Sep 3 Mrs LefTert's estate, her grave 

" 27 Benj. Everet, yr wife bell 

" 3 Wm. Meke, yr child 
Oct 6 Wm. Creed Sr. bell yr wife 

" 13 Sarah Hinchman's estate, her grave 

" " Jas Mackrell, his son 

'* 10 John W. Welling, yr child 

" 31 Mr. Jonson ("Masson"), yr child 
Dec 6 Hope Rood's estate, his bell 
1812 

Jan 7 SheriiT Wyckoff, yr wife 
Feb 18 Samuel Denton's estate, his bell 

" 19 John Welling's estate, his grave 

" 28 Jos Oldfield's estate, his grave 
Ap 6 John Hewlett Sr., estate, pall 

" 12 Jos Robinson, bell for yr dau. Sarah 



OF GRACE CHURCH 367 

" 14 Jas Mackerell Sr., yr son James 
" 18 Caleb Mills, yr brother Peter 
May 3 David Lamberson Jr, bell yr child 
May 8 Neh'h Everet's estate, his bell 

" 21 Samuel Tattle's estate, Mr. Tuttle's bell 

" 31 Jos Tuttle, bell yr brother Thad. 
Ju 5 Daniel Kissam's estate (lawyer) his grave 
" 6 Wm. Puntine. bell for Rich Van Lue 
" 9 John Van Lue's estate, bell for Mr. V. Lue at Beaver Pond 
" 21 Jost V. Brunt Jr. estate, his grave 
" 30 John V, Lue Sr. estate, bell 
Jul I Samuel Eldert, yr grand child 
Aug I Oliver Stickland, yr child sod & grass 12/ 
Sep 25 Jeffrey Smith, bell yr wife 
Oct 16 Andrew Napier, yr child 
Nov 25 Nath'l Ludlum. bell yr mother 
1813 

Jan 16 Wm Smith ("holer"), bell yr child • 
Feb 14 Wm Coler estate, Pall 
Jan 18 Jas Denton, bell yr mother 

Mar 21 Mrs Welling's estate, her grave, wid. of Thos 
May 3 Dr N Shelton, small grave 

" 7 Jas Morrell's estate, his grave 

" 7 Jacob Carpenter, bell for yr wife 

" 28 Jas Tuttle's estate, his bell 
Ju 28 Jos Thatford, yr child 
Jul 18 Mr. Sprous (Sproul) estate, his bell 
Aug 26 Benj. Everet's estate, bell 

" 27 Wm. Creed Sr, estate, his bell 
Sep 9 John Coit, bell yr child 

" II Caleb Mill's estate, his grave 
Oct 8 Mr. Whit (Garden), yr wife bell & pall 
Nov 16 Major Mc Neil, Mrs Mc Neil, 12/ 
Ap 7 Daniel Kissam's estate — — 
Dec. 12 Willett Skidmore. yr child 
1814 

Jan. lo Uriah Hendrickson, yr child 
" 29 Wm. Forbush's estate, his bell 
Feb 5 John Durye Sr. estate, his bell 
" 9 Jost V. Brunt Sr. estate, his grave 12/, pall 4 bell 6/ 



n 



368 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

" 24 Josiah Brown Jr. yr child. 
Mar I Joe Rose, yr son (est. Laurene Roe, son Jas Roe 
Ap. 3 Henry Hendrickson, bell for Mrs. "Huberd" 

" 9 Johannis Lot's estate, his bell 

" 10 Mrs. Bellerd's estate, his bell 

" 19 Wid. Welling's estate, yr child 
May 2 Estate of Wid. of John Durye Sr. her bell 
" 7 Tredwell Kissam, pall 
" 13 Wilmot Oakley's estate, his bell 
Ju 2 Jos Sealy Jr, yr child 6/ 
Jul 3 Josiah Brown Sr., grave for Mrs Brown 

" 12 Mr. Freeman, pall 
Aug I David Carpenter, bell yr wife 

" 15 St. Hicks, bell yr mother 

" 28 David Lamberson Jr bell yr child 

" 31 Uriah Hendrickson, yr child 
Sep 26 French gentleman, child 
Oct 5 Wm. Puntine, for Mrs "Bailey" 
De 30 Mrs Zebediah Storv's estate, her bell 
1815 

Jan 15 Hewlett Creed, bell for Mrs Creed 
Feb 4 Mr. Johnson "Mason", yr child 

" 18 Andrew Napier, yr child 
Mar 28 Samuel Mills, bell yr daughter 
Ap 8 Mr. Garden's estate, pall 

" 12 Thos "Balye" (Baylis), bell yr mother 

" 16 Gilbert Creed, bell yr wife 
May 7 Josiah Brown Jr, estate, his grave 
Jul 15 Samuel Messenger, bell yr wife 
Ju 4 John Williamson's estate, his grave 12/ 
Aug 18 Lawrence Roe, yr child bell 6/ 
Ju 24 John Rood's estate, his bell 

Aug 22 Rev Mrs Faitout, estate, bell for Rev. Faitout 6/ 
Sep 18 Jos Robinson's estate, his bell 

" 21 Parish of Jamaica, Philip Valentine's grave 12/, bell 6/ 
Oct 13 Mrs Keteltas estate "opening the grave for yr Mrs 
Keteltas" 12/ bell 6/ 
10 Bernardus Hendricksons, bell yr dau. 
13 John Keteltas, opening grave for yr mother 12/. bell 6/ 

" 22 Mr. "Holstead", yr child 



OF GRACE CHURCH 369 

Nov i8 Mrs Brasier, bell yr son 
De 8 Isaac Brinckerhoff's estate, his bell 
" 20 John Smith's estate, bell for Mr. Smith at the Pond 
1816 

Jan. 6 Jona. Jones, bell yr son Isaac 
" II John Dunn, bell yr wife 
" 13 Major Mc Neil, yr son Niel 
" 14 Jona. Jones, bell yr wife 
" 27 Amos Denton, bell yr wife 
Feb 25 Jacob Bergen's estate, his bell 
Mar 10 Rev. Z. H. Cooper, pall for yr brother Peter 
" 17 Mr. Wickes Sr. bell yr wife 
" 19 Samuel Messenger's estate his bell 
May 28 Oliver Stickland yr wife 
Ju 5 Jas Sackett, yr wife 
" 29 Mrs Brown, yr son John 

" " Tunis V. Brunt, grave for Mr. Vanderbilt 8/ 
Aug 12 Mrs. Brownjohn, yr son Frank 
Aug 17 Geo. Codwise, his grave 
Sep 21 John A. Ditmars, bell yr wife 
" Amos Mills, bell yr wife 
" 30 Neh'h Coe, bell yr son in law 
Nov 20 Rich. Creed's estate, his bell 

" 24 Wm. Ludlum's estate bell for Judge Ludlum 
" 27 Mrs. Letter's estate, her grave 
1817 

Jan 3 Tunis Van Brunt, grave for Mr. Vanderbilt, for his re- 
mains brought from yards (or Far) Rockaway to Jam. ch. 
16/ 

13 Jas Mackell, grave yr wife 
" 29 Abm. Hendrickson's estate, bell 
1816 

Nov. 29 John W. Welling, yr child 
Dec. 6 Mr. Taylor's estate, his bell 

" 9 Miss Ann Cebra's estate, her bell 
1817 

Ap 2 Wid. Wiggin's estate, bell for Mr. "Bergen" 
" 4 Johanne's Polhemus' estate, his grave 
" 20 John Jones, bell yr wife 
" 21 Samuel Hendrickson, bell yr wife 



370 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

" 29 Urias Hendrickson, yr wife 
May 16 Joe Roe, grave yr son Nathaniel 

" 26 Rev. Wm. P. Cooper, bell & pall, yr child 
Jul 9 John Troup's estate, his grave 16/ 
Aug 3 Jeffrey Smith, bell for Rich. Wiggins 
Aug 7 Jas Foster, bell yr grandchild 

" 8 Jos Sealy Jr, yr child 

" ly Whitehead Cornell, bell yr child 

" 18 Thos Betts' estate, his bell & grave 

" 23 Jeffrey Smith, bell for the man that was drowned 
Sep 23 David Piatt, yr child 
Oct 13 Isaac Leffert for Jacob Conklin, bell & pall 

" 14 Neh'h Hinchman, bell for yr brother Robert 
" 29 Aaron Cortelyou's estate, grave for Aaron 
Nov 2 Mr. Van "Dund" (Dine?) grave for Dr. "Keemers" 

(Keymer) 
Nov 17 Rich, Creed's estate, bell for a son of Rich Creed. 

" 30 Benj. Hinchman, yr mother 
1818 

Mar 4 Simon Smith, bell yr wife 
Ap 8 John Troup, taking up the corpse & filling 24/ 
" 14 Geo. Codwise " " " & pall 24/ 

" 9 Isaac Lefferts, yr brother James 
" 10 estate of Wid. of John Ludlum, bell 
May 14 Wm. Smith Jr. bell yr child 

" 19 Wid. Rood's estate, bell 

" 28 Dr. N. Shelton, yr child 
Aug 8 Wm. Meke, grave for Sarah Jones 

" 15 Daniel Kissam, Pall 
Sep 4 "Joaly" (Tealy?) Smith's bell 
Oct 28 Wm. Puntine, bell for Mrs Van Lue 

" 31 "Lank Fleank" bell yr dau. Sarah 
Nov 5 " " yr son John 

Nov 26 Samuel Mills, Jr. bell 
De 10 Abm. Lott, bell 
1819 

Jan 17 St. Hicks, yr child 
Feb 19 Nath'l Ludlum, bell yr child 
May 10 Andrew Napier, yr child 
Ju 6 Mr. Rufus King, yr wife "Mrs King" 



OF GRACE CHURCH 371 

Jul 9 John Welling, the tailor, yr child 
" 19 Jacob Carpenter's estate, his bell 
Aug 18 Elias Hendrickson's estate, his bell 

19 Mrs Lott 
Oct 3 Jas Mackerell's estate, his grave 
" 26 Jacob Smith bell for Judy Mills 

" Harry Wiggens, estate, bell for Mrs Wiggins 
Nov 2 Wm. Puntine, yr dau., bell & pall 
" " David Lamberson Sr. estate, his bell 
** 9 Jacob Smith, bell for Abigail Mills 
" 28 Gilbert Creed, bell yr dau. 
De 2 Thos Wickes' estate, bell for him 
1820 

Jan 17 Rich. Wiggins, bell yr son 
" 22 Nth'l "Simm — "? grave yr grand child 
" 28 Mr. Van Dine grave for Mr. Cortelyou 
Feb 7 Uriah Hendrickson, yr child 
" 10 Aury Simonson yr mother 
" 29 St. Hicks' estate, for Mr Hicks 
Ap 14 Noah Smith, bell yr dau. Total 766 
1822 

Jan 2^ Aaron Van Nostrand, Sexton of this Parish was Buried 
finished copying 9m. of 9 A.M. Aug. 18' 85 

H. O. Jr. 

TOMBSTONES 

OLD INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBSTONES IN GRACE CHURCH YARD 1846 

Date of death Yrs. Mo. Day 
Adalard Frances wife of Geo. Oct. 1 1 1842 43 

Austin Nath'l son of Nath'l & Ann, 



Bos1 


^on May 


II 1807 


43 






Bugbee Sand ford 


Sep 


23 1834 


25 






Bogardus Anthony 


Nov 


20 1838 


39 


8 




Bennet John H. 


Aug 


12 1846 


51 


I 


I 


Bradlee Ann wife of Thos 


Jan 


21 1830 


32 


9 


16 


Brush Eve 


Nov 


15 1843 


75 






Brooks Wm. T. 


Nov 


3 1821 


9 


10 


29 


" Sarah wife of Daniel 


Sep 


10 1827 


62 


II 


10 


" Daniel I 


Jan 


13 1830 


79 


10 


28 


Banks Sarah wife of Capt. Jacob 


July 


18 1763 


21 







Nov 


17 


1748 


37 


July 


28 


1759 


77 






1742 


56 


May 


10 


1761 


44 


Au 


17 


1817 


58 


Oct 


4 


1781 


^Z 



372 ORIGIN AND HISTO'RY 

Betts Rich, (son of Rich.) 

" Mary (Creed) wife of Rich 
" Richard 
John 

Thomas of lingering illness Au 17 1817 58 2 27 

" Catharine, Mrs 
Brown Eliza Mary Ann child of 

Josiah & (Elizabeth) Aug 25 1803 13 6 
" Jas Lawrence child of Josiah 

& (Elizabeth) Eeb 25 181 4 i 4 
Mary wife of Dudley Ju 14 1807 22 

" Mary child of Josiah & 

Elizabeth Mar 14 1799 17 
Barrol Clemence M. of Wm. H. & 

Rebecca 
Bogart Cors. i. 

Combs Phebe S. W. of Willet & dau. 

of D. C. 
" Leonard S. 
Comes John 
Cornwell Daniel, tailor 
Cornwell John 
Creed Augustus of Wm. & Jane E. 

" Hamelton 

Callison Elizabeth wid. of Wm. 

Cortelyou Aaron 

" Susan 

Peter 

" Jas G. 

" Sarah Elizabeth of Jas G. & 

Ann 
Contait Elizabeth of Fr. H. & Ann 
Codwise Alexr. H. of Geo. & Mary 
David Augustus " " 
Theodore Octavius 
Jane Bynanck 
Jas Nelson 
Georgina Louisa 
Carpenter Benj. 
Mary 



Jan 


9 


1845 


I 


6 


18 


Feb 


16 


1832 


78 






Ap 


12 


1844 


28 


3 


6 


Aug 


18 


1841 


— 


9 


10 


Sep 


24 


1770 


65 






" 


21 


1842 


68 






Aug 


6 


1799 


40 


3 


II 


Ju 


5 


1838 


2 


10 


16 


Jan 


29 


1832 


— 


II 


29 


Dec. 


3 


1 841 in 52 






Oct. 


21 


1817 


55 


II 


21 


Jan 


26 


1820 


41 


10 


9 


Sep 


25 


1820 


67 


10 


4 


Mar 


9 


1826 


79 


8 


12 


Aug 


18 


1831 


12 


II 


4 


Aug 


10 


1827 


— 


2 


18 


Oct 


18 


1826 


22 


4 


II 


Ju 


20 


1824 


22 


5 


10 


Sep 


12 


1828 


22 


6 


12 


Jan 


20 


1831 in4i 






Nov 


19 


i836in38 






Jan 


18 


I 840 in 28 






bee 


27 


1794 


65 






Ju 


18 


1798 


63 







Aug 


27 


1760 


86 


Aug 


9 


1740 


57 


May 


19 


1759 


58 


Oct 


IS 


1755 


40 


De 


II 


1755 


76 


Feb 


2 


1844 in 6 


Dec 


28 


1879 


88 


Feb 


7 


1 822 in 54 


Sep 


30 


1768 


I 


Ap 


3 


1839 


80 


Jul 


23 


180311172 


Ju 


6 


1802 




Jul 


27 


I 799 in 74 



OF GRACE CHURCH 373 

Clowes Samuel Esq 
Clowes Catharine 
" Samuel Jr 
" Joseph 
Clark Cath, wife of Andrew 
Carter Caroline E 

Dawson Elizabeth native of England 
" Elizabeth 

" Jane of Harry and Elizabeth 
Depeyster Cath. Livingston wid. of 

Abn 
" Eve of Abm. & Margaret 

" Sarah of Jas & Sarah 

" James 

" Sarah Dec 14 1802 in 75 

Dickson Capt. Wm. of 4th Com. 

N. Y. Vol. Jul 9 1780 
Dunbar Mary wid. of Peter (merchant) Jan. 13 1767 26 
Dudley John Au 14 1807 70 

" Mary Au 6 1796 60 

Duffel Rich, of Edward & Eliz. Sep 7 1799 3 i 

Denton Jas of Lawrence & Rebecca Sep 20 1830 in 23 
Rebecca " " Dec 30 i834in24 

" John Lawrence " " Jan 1870 

" Lawrence Oct 2 i8365n64 

" Rebecca 
De Mill Abm. of John & Eliz. Mar 23 1782 in i 

De Heiland Lucretia Josephine 

Caroline Ann mary Louisa 
Colheux De Langpre wife 
of Henry Mar 5 1800 22 

Dunbar Mrs. Eliza died in N. Y. Oct 1816 64 

Eldert Henry W. of Cors. & Jane May 24 1808 i i 19 

" Abm. Sep 5 1834 50 8 2y 

Eliza Jan 31 1827 39 i 20 

" Henrietta Ditmas of Abm & Eliz. Dec i 1830 8 11 7 
" Samuel " " Oct 20 1830 14 7 27 

" Susan Jane " " Aug 11 1828 i 10 

" Caroline " " Nov 6 1820 9 8 20 

" Harriet " " Ju 20 1812 3 7 10 



374 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



" Sarah L. of Amb (S.) & Eliz S. Mar 
" Henry " Dec 

Eigenbrodt L. E. A. born in Germany Au 
Sarah 
" Sarah EHzabeth of L. E. 

A. & Sarah Nov 
Patrick Henry of L. E. A. 

& Sarah Sep 
L. E. A. Ju 

Fish Sarah wid of Rich Dec 

Greswold Thos Sep 

Abigail Oct 

Hunter Wm. Feb 

" John Ap 

" Henry Clay of Wm & Adeline Ju 
Hendrickson Uriah Jan 

" Ida Ju 

Hicks Smith (innkeeper) 
Jane 

Stephen Feb 

Mary 

Eliz of St. & Mary Ju 

Sarah Eliz Jan 

Henderson Abigail Ann of Jas & Mary Jul 
Hinchman Miriam dau. of Ob. & Eliz. Ap 



Hoogland Cornelia w. of John 
Horsfield Cath. Ann 
Harvey Eliz. wife of Thos 
Hosack Alexn. 

" Gloriana C. 
Jessup Eliza Ann wife of Edwd. 
Johnson Wm. Martin 
Johnson W. L. 
Johnson Mary 

" Wm. Gracie 

" Samuel R 
Eliz. R 
King Rufus 
" Mary 
" Eliz wife of Chas 



Sep 

Feb 

Sep 

Aug 

Ap 

Sep 

Sep 



Jan 

Ju 

Nov 

Ap 

Ju 

Feb 



13 1842 — 


7 


6 


8 1845 — 


— 


10 


30 i828in55 







6 1808 2 

13 1828 I 
2 I 844 in 23 

10 1780 34 
2 1808 61 
2 1 834 in 83 
2 1841 37 

31 1842 

10 1834 
9 1825 

11 1829 
1827 



68 

48 
45 
59 



55 
60 

43 



22 I 837 in 5 
7 i84oini4 

3 1842 18 
29 1827 72 

4 1819 49 
15 i825in36 



3 
6 
6 
8 
II 



28 1820 55 5 

24 1800 I 4 
13 1809 3 — 
5 i8oiini4 
26 1745 6 

1 1828 

2 1879 
17 1838 

5 1834 
28 1818 

3 1 840 in 68 
19 1797 



20 



25 

10 
10 
22 



5 
12 



52 — — 



16 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



375 



" Henry Myers of Jas G & Sarah R 


-Aug 


9 ] 


825 


— 


10 


24 


" Alsop 


Jul 


20 1 


836 


I 


4 




" Ellen of John A. & Mary 


Jan 


2 ] 


827 


— 


10 


— 


" Ellen 


May 


10 I 


842 in 1 1 






" Frederick " " 


Sep 


10 ] 


828 


— 


8 


— 


Frederick Gore of Rufus & Mary Ap 


3 ] 


829 


27 


2 


17 


" Archibald Gracie 


Aug 


I ] 


823 


2 


5 


II 


" Gracie of Arch. Gracie & Eliz. D 


Jul 


21 ] 


846 


— 


4 


13 


John Alsop (Govr.) 


Jul 


7 ] 


867 








Mary Ray 


Aug 


7 ] 


873 








Kemps Capt. John 


Ju 


7 ] 


[824 








Kemps Eliza 


Aug 


25 1 


822 


39 






Keteltas Joanna of Ganet & Charity 


Au 


15 ' 


[831 


49 


4 


5 


Kissam Daniel 


Ju 


3 ] 


812 


7Z 






Mary 


May 


8 ] 


[800 


55 






Lamberson Eliza W. of Cornelius 


Mar 


3 


[811 


19 


10 


2 


" Sarah wife of David 


De 


28 ] 


[775 


53 


3 


22 


Leonard Mary wife of Major Thos 


Au, 


17 


[782 








Lanman Sarah w. of Wm. & dau. of 














Benj. & Mary Carpenter 


Sep 


9 1 


832 


76 


10 




Leslie Geo. Willocks 


Ap 


24 ] 


[774in43 






Mackrell Sarah wid of Wm. 


Dec 


12 


[841 


75 


3 


19 


" James 


Nov 


29 


[840 


41 


I 


16 


" Millicent wife of James 


Feb 


7 ] 


[806 


69 


7 


6 


" Leticia wife of James 


Jan 


18 


[817 


55 


I 


17 


Messenger Margaret wife of Samuel L 


May 


7 


1830 


29 


8 


13 


" Ann Roe of Tom & Margaret Au 


7 


[830 


— 


10 


3 


Morrel James 


May 


6 


[813 


65 


I 


I 


" Sarah 


Aug 


20 


[810 


61 


— 


II 


Miller Sarah wife of Capt. Moses 


Mar 


12 


1809 


22 


2 


17 


Mills Nath'l Jr. 


Mar 


27 


[811 


53 


8 


17 


" Caleb 


Sep 


10 


1813 


54 


II 


21 


" Nath'l 


Au 


30 


1779 


65 


9 


16 


Catherine 


Aug 


13 


1779 


60 


10 


— 


Martin James 


Nov 


31 


1831 








Mills John Keeling of John & Sarah 














Ann 


Feb 


14 


[838 


3 


— 


27 


Mottley John 


Ap 


10 


1843 


1-2 


6 


10 


Napier Cath. of Andrew & Cath. 


May 


9 


1819 


3 


I 




" Ann 


Oct 


15 


1812 


— 


9 


— 



376 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Napier Andrew 












Nostrand Timothy 


Dec 21 


i83iin65 






Nostrand Cath. Lett 












" Gitty Ann dau. of Tim 


Jan 8 


1 83 1 in 24 






John S. 


Feb 6 


1 836 in 40 






Ogden Dr. Jacob Jr 


Ap 4 


1802 








" Mary Reade Depeyster w. of 












Dr. Jacob Sep 20 


1790 


25 






" Dr. Jacob 


Sep 3 


1780 


59 






" Elizabeth Bradford 












" Elizabeth 


Sep 7 


1749 


14 






Oldfield Jos 


Aug 22 


1765 in 62 






" Mirian 


May 8 


1825 


88 


3 


8 


Joseph 


Feb 26 


1812 


75 


6 




Pinckney Ciceli & Juliet of Thos & 












Caroline 


Nov 20 


1836 


5 


1 1 


17 


" Susan Ophelia 


Mar 15 


1834 


I 


3 


5 


Amantha Caroline 


Au 6 


1827 


— 


5 


13 


Rowland John S. 


Jan 20 


1840 


25 


9 


15 


" Cors. Duyea of John S. & 












Sarah Ann 


Jan 21 


1840 


— 


2 


24 


Benj. S. 


S^ep 3 


1838 


50 


6 


21 


Chas of Benj S & Ann J. 


May 7 


1 841 


7 


5 




Rapelye Chas. 


Mar 21 


1834 


42 






Deborah 


July 19 


1 836 in 43 






Roe Jos 


Oct 6 


1829 


74 


2 


2^ 


" Ann Lawrence 












Roe Gilbert 


Au 13 


I 829 in 45 






" Silas 


Sep 20 


1 83 1 in 42 






" Sarah wife of Silas 


May 7 


1829 in 36 






" Lewis of Silas & Sarah 


Sep 4 


1826 


I 


4 




" Amanda " " 


Jul 26 


1828 


— 


II 


— 


" Lafayette of Gilbert & Mary 


Sep 13 


1825 


— 


I 


2 


" Nathaniel 


May 14 


1817 


34 


3 




" Lawrence 


Feb 2y 1 


814 


37 


6 


27 


" Ann of Jos & Ann 


Au 25 


1809 


16 


8 




Rowland Benj. 


Jan 4 


1825 


76 






Phebe 


Feb 6 


1841 


88 


6 




David 


De 18 


1821 


61 






Ida 


Au 8 


1824 


58 







OF GRACE CHURCH 377 



Rising Emma of David B. & Susan L 


Mar 


2 


1844 


— 


II 


24 


Smith Jas S. 


Mar 


26 


1 838 in 43 






George of John & Hannah of 














St. John N. B. 


Sep 


^Z 


1 795 in 24 






John C. 














Lucy A 














Martha Hoyt of John C. & 














Lucy A 


Sep 


21 


1841 


— 


3 


14 


•' Wessell Sell of John C. & 














Lucy A 


Jan 


13 


1842 


3 


8 


— 


Sale Ann \^^ Durand of Wm. A 


kar 


I 


1842 


26 


7 


13 


Sealy Emeline wife of Robt. 


De 


10 


1841 


29 




28 


Joseph 


De 


17 


1831 


82 






Simonson Jeremiah 


Ju 


15 


1835 


54 


9 


13 


Elizabeth 


Mar 


10 


1826 


18 


8 


27 


Chas Jeremiah of Jer. & 














Cath. 


Sep 


^0 


1831 


— 


8 


27 


Peter S. of Jer. & Eliz. 


Tu 


15 


1829 


20 


7 


II 


Mary W. of Thos H. 


Feb 


21 


1837 


19 


10 


9 


" Rebecca w. of Isaac 


Feb 


14 


1832 


24 


6 


9 


" Sarah Maria of John V. & 














Sarah M. 


Feb 


5 


1843 


2 


5 


28 


Skinner Margaret 


Sep 


3 


1803 


74 


5' 


5 


Shimmins Margaret w. of John 


July 


30 


1839 


48 


8 


I 


Smiley Wm. H. son of Maria 


Sep 


13 


1846 


27 


2 


13 


Maria dau of And. Ten Eyck 


Feb 


14 


1845 


63 






Sayres Isaac son of Rev G. H. & E. M. 


Sep 


22 


1824 


I 


8 




John Tillotson " " 


Feb 


14 


1823 


2 


5 




Sutherland Geo. 














Elizabeth 


Dec 


31 


1801 


2>7 






(Carpenter) 














" John of Geo & Eliz 


Aug 


22 


1790 


4 






Jennet " 


Sep 


10 


1790 


6 






Maria 


Feb 


28 


1793 


6 






Sackett Thomas Ogden of 














Aug & Minerva 


Aug 


13 


1811 


I 


6 




Sackett Samuel 


Sept 


29 


1780 


52 


2 


3 


Sackett Samuel Jr. 


Mar 


7 


1822 


57 






Sackett Mary 


Ap 


22 


1 784 in 43 







Sackett Elizabeth 



378 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Kissam 
Sackett Millicent w. of Jos 
Sproull John Thos 
Sproull Jeremiah of John & Eliz. 

Jas Jeremiah 
Skidmore Susanna 
" Tredwell 

Eliz Allen 
" John 
" Samuel 

Abigail Whitehead 
Abigail Ann of Willett & Eliz 
Troup John 
" Sarah C. 

" Christopher of John & Sarah 
Thatford Jane wife of Wm. 
John 
Wm. 

Mary wife of Wm. 
Mary of Mary & Wm. 
" Joseph 
" Cath wife of Jos. 
Townsend Thos S. 
Thurston Abby wid. of Robt. 

Eliza Ann 
Uitendale Paulus Moncyr 
Baron of Brettone of St. Croix 
Van Nostrand Mary L. of John & Mary 
Nicholas L. " 
John 

Mary Ludlum 
Van Brunt Margaret w. of John 
Rutgert 
Jost. 
Eliz 
John 
" Jos of George & Jane. 

Eliz. 
" Sarah Levison of Tunis & 

Sally Maria 



Ju 4 
Jul 4 
Mar 20 



Feb 2 



8i6in54 

772 in 62 

847 in 47 

I 

804 26 



— 24 



13 



Dec 


31 


1859 


81 


9 


II 


Nov 


26 


1863 








Feb 


26 


1826 


87 






De 


II 


1813 


2 


6 


17 


July 


8 


1817 


70 






Mar 


8 


1843 


77 






Oct 


12 


1826 


25 


5 


13 


Jan 


27 


1826 


26 






Ap 


30 


1 833 in 73 






Sep 


30 


1776 


54 






De 


29 


I 800 in 76 






Nov 


12 


1778 


21 






Nov 


10 


1827 


58 


2 


20 


Feb 


4 


1810 


39 


8 




Jan 


II 


1834 


62 


3 


28 


May 


8 


i844in7i 






May 


24 


1 830 in 28 






Mar 


27 


1796 


43 






Tan 


27 


1838 


6 


4 


4 


Ap 


10 


1836 


17 


2 




Oct 


15 


1832 


41 


6 




Feb 


9 


1828 


62 


7 


28 


Mar 


II 


1789 


24 






Feb 


8 


1814 


82 


10 


28 


Jan 


3 


1780 


39 






Dec 


18 


1826 


69 






Mar 


13 


1837 


2 


— 


4 


Nov 


13 


1827 


— 


II 


16 



Oct 24 1829 2 8 



OF GRACE CHURCH 379 

Van Nostrand Aaron Jan 22 i822in84 

" Sarah Aug 23 1807 75 9 

Jos son of A. & Sarah Ap 30 1792 
John A. De 28 i828in63 

" Rachel De 26 1846 79 i 10 

" Thomas s. of A. & Sarah Sep 5 1795 

" William 

Martha 
" Elizabeth of Wm. & 

Martha Aug 19 1832 in2i 
Chas. Edward " Feb 17 1832 3 

Van Nostrand Ann of Wm. & Martha Nov 29 i834ini6 
Van Renssalaer Cullen of John C. & 

Cornelia Ap 12 1844 i i 12 
Van Cortland Sarah Ogden of Philip 

& Cath. Ap 18 1771 — — — 
Richard Willing Mar 16 1768 — — — 

Vanderbilt Jeremiah May i 1807 35 6 20 

Valentine Elihu Baldwin of Sam & 

Mary Ap 16 1845 7 6 21 
" Mary w. of Jeremiah Oct 14 1820 56 4 7 

'' Sarah of Oba & Phebe May 17 1838 12 — 20 

Susan Ann of Oba. & Ruth Feb 8 182 1 i 8 i 
" Mary of Thos & Sarah Ap 27 182 1 i 2 27 

Mary " " July 17 1825 — 2 6 

" Jeremiah " " Aug 26 1834 i 8 

Oba. May 28 1842 54 7 

Valentine Ruth of Oba. Mar 26 1823 31 

" Wm Kissam of Oba. & Phebe Feb 11 1837 3 6 
John H Mar 11 1843 43 

Martha Oct 18 1835 30 

" Valentine Elizabeth, of 

John H. & Martha H. Dec 29 1833 — 3 
WelHng John B. of Thos & Susana Feb 7 181 2 35 
Thos July 6 181 1 65 

Susana widow Mar 20 181 3 64 

Charles Au 15 1 821 in 84 

Helen Sep 14 1787 in 54 

Ennis 
Anne Ap 9 1772 in 25 



380 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Welling, Samuel 


Ag 


3 


1823 


66 


8 


Elizabeth 


Ap 


29 


1823 


65 


2 


Mary 


Mar 


21 


1843 


64 


I 


*' Charles (oldest stone in the 












yard) 






1736 






" Eliz. Ann V. Brunt dau. of 












John & Jane 


Oct 


8 


1811 





10 


" Elizabeth w. of Chas 


Jan 


3 


1 841 


63 




Edward of Jas & Eliz. 


Mar 


II 


1833 


— 


— 


" Benj Tanner 


Sep 


4 


1830 


39 


9 


" Hannah 


Oct 


12 


1836 


43 


II 


Wood Capt Wm. 


Jan 


30 


1796 


44 


7 


Warne Wm. 


Sep 


10 


1798 


52 




Aletta 


Oct 


13 


1795 


52 


10 


Wm. son of Wm. & Aletta 


Oct 


I 


1797 


21 


I 


Waters James 


Sep 


2 


1803 


36 




Ward Phebe of Col. Sam. & Phebe 


Ap 


22 


1 825 in 34 




Willett Cath. of Edw. & Aletta 


Au 


17 


1746 


12 




" Elbert 


Au 


19 


1738 in 14 




'' Jonah 


May 


25 


1749 


21 




" Edward 


Dec 


8 


1794 


93 




Aletta 


Oct 


3 


1780 


76 




Whitehead Daniel Capt. 


[an 


14 


1792 


41 




Cath. Willett 


Ap 


4 


1800 


45 




Williamson John 


June 


3 


1815 


81 


5 


Williamson Adriana Suydam 


Sep 


21 


1828 


84 


II 


White Mary w of Robert of Ireland 


Oct 


7 


i8i3in46 




Wilkes Harriet w of George & Dau. of 












Jas. G. King 


Ju 


f7 


1838 


21 





21 



15 



15 



Finished copying Aug. 18. 1885, 3 P. M. 



H. O., Jr. 



X 
PEWHOLDERS AND COMMUNICANTS 



OF GRACE CHURCH 383 



Pewholders in Grace Church, Dec. 1, 1909. 



Stewart, Charles J., 2 sittings. 
Burtis, Mrs. Caroline W., 1 sitting. 
Jackson, Miss Isabel H., 1 sitting. 
Creed, Miss C. L., 1 sitting. 
Hicks, Mrs. Helen L., whole pew. 
Meynen, George K., whole pew. 
Tator, Mrs. Sarah, half pew. 
Brenton, B. J., whole pew. 
Blondel, C, whole pew. 
Hicks, Charles, half pew. 
Smelt, Miss Louisa, half pew. 
Oborne, Ernest A., whole pew. 
Schoonmaker, Geo., whole pew. 
Baker, W. C, whole pew. 
Purchase, R., 1 sitting. 
Jarvis, Mrs. William, 3 sittings. 
Hagner, Misses, half pew. 
Lockwood, C. A., half pew. 
Waters, Misses M. and E., 2 sittings. 
Robinson, Mrs. W. S., whole pew. 
French, James B., whole pew. 
Aymar, Miss C. O., whole pew. 
Cogswell, Wm. S., whole pew. 
Crane, Alden S., whole pew. 
Stocking, Mrs. S. S., whole pew. 
Betts, Mrs. E. H., whole pew. 
James, Mrs. Julia F., 2 sittings. 
Hassler, Miss Harriet E., 1 sitting. 
Denton, John S., whole pew. 



I 



384 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Belden, Mrs. C. A., half pew. 
Sayres, G. B., whole pew. 
Meynen, P. K., half pew. 
Grossman, F. G., half pew. 
Rapelye, M., 2 sittings. 
Napier, C. C, whole pew. 
Van Allen, Mrs. H. A., half pew. 
Payne, A. T., whole pew. 
Abbott, F. E., M. D., whole pew. 
Pell, W. H., 1 sitting. 
Hoffman, Charles, 1 sitting. 
Horan, Mrs. S., 1 sitting. 
Simonson, Smith M., whole pew. 
Cook, Mrs. Jennie, 1 sitting. 
Blanchard, Mrs. K. P., half pew. 
Lothian, James, half pew. 
Damon, G. W., whole pew. 
Smith, Mrs. M. F., whole pew. 
Napier, Miss S., 1 sitting. 
Bedell, Miss Ella, 1 sitting. 
Sullivan, Miss C, 1 sitting. 
Pette, M., 1 sitting. 
Waters, Misses, half pew. 

NAMES OF COMMUNICANTS IN GRACE CH 
Jamaica Sept. 1817 by Rev. G. H. Sayres 

Daniel Kissam 
Mrs Do Kissam 
Jeremiah Valentine 
Mrs — Valentine 
Ruth Valentine 
John Hoogland 
Mrs Hoogland 
John Skidmore 



OF GRACE CHURCH 385 

Mrs Skidmore 
Wynant Van Zandt 
Mrs Van Zandt 
Sarah Hewlett 
Mrs Sarah Troup 
Mrs Mary Codwise 
Jeremiah Simison 
Mrs Simison 
Miss Mary WelHng 

Eliza Welling- 

Martha Welling 
Miss Polhemus 
Abiatha Rhodes 
Mrs Rhodes 
Miss Martha Hewlett 
Miss Hannah Hewlett 
Mrs Rowland 
Timothy Nostrand 
Mrs Nostrand 
Miss Eliza Brown 
Lewis E. A Eigenbrodt 
Mrs Vandervoort 
Lawrence Roe 
Mrs Roe 
Mrs Scriba 
Hannah Wickam 
Aaron Van Nostrand 
John Van Nostrand 
Catherine Smith 
Elizabeth Brewer 
Oliver Powell 
Eliza Troup 
Mrs Rufus King 
Miss Susan Hicks 
Wm Sale 
Mrs Sale 
Eliza M. Sayres 
Robert Grant 
Rebecca Aspinwall 
Sarah Roe 



386 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Colored People 

Thomas Bog"art 
James Hitchcock 
Old Sarah 
Silva Troup 
Fanny 
Gustav Ceasar 

Mary Ann Valentine 
Mrs James Valentine 
Mary Ann Simison 
Mr Smith 

(brother of Fosters' Meadow) 
Mrs Hays Bowie 
Miss Brasher 
Hamilton Codwise 
Mrs. Sealy 
Mrs Harvey 
Mrs Theobauld 
Mrs Halworth 
Miss Lake, at Mr Denton's 
Mrs Eigenbrodt 
Daniel Cornwell 
Mrs Cornwell 
Miss Blackwell 
Mrs Bowie 
Mrs Heyler 
Mrs Keer 
Miss Brasher 
Mrs Thatford 
Mrs King- 
James Smith 
Mrs James Smith 
Evert Wenman 
Mrs Wenman 
Mr Kingsbury 
Mrs Kingsbury 
Mrs Brasher 
Mrs Powell 
Mrs Sinclair 
Anna Codwise 



OF GRACE CHURCH 387 

Mrs A Dockerty 

Mrs Is. Stewart 

Mrs Clements 

Mr P. C. Pinckney 

Mrs Pinckney 

Wm Joel 

Miss Hetty Hicks 

Wm Duncan 

Mrs Hewlett Creed 

Mr Clements 

Wm Beckly 

Judah Smith colourd 

Mrs Widow Skidmore 

George Johnson 

Mrs McKee 

Johnathan Rowland 

Mrs Rowland 

Elizabeth Ann Clowes 

Hiram A Frederick 

Valentine Clowes 

John Van Nostrand 

(carpenter) 
Mrs John Van Nostrand 
Wm Swayzee 
Phebe M. Van Nostrand 
Catherine Van Nostrand 

(colord) sis of I Duarye 
Margarett Van Nostrand 

(colored) 
Dinah Van Nostrand (cold) 
Wm Halligan 
Ellen Van Nostrand (cold) 
Joseph Sealy Nov. 1827 
Mrs Rodman Feb. 1828 
Miss Nostrand. daughter of 

J. Nostrand, Dec. 25, 1828 
Helen Nostrand (cold) Do 
Benjamin Clement Do 

Mrs. Obh A^alentine 1829 
Mrs Jane Rowland April 1829 



388 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Capt. Joseph Roe Sept. 1829 

Mrs Roe 

Mrs Vandebugh July 1829 
James Denton, March 1830 

NAMES OF COMMUNICANTS AS REPORTED FROM 

1821-1870. 

(N. B. The marks on the original of "decease" and "removed" 
often made with pencil are omitted. — H. O. L.) 

Philip Noland 

Mrs Miriam Oldfield 

Sarah Wickham 

Sarah Welling 

Ellen Roe 

Jane Codwise 

Nancy Gracie 

Miss Kettletas 

Elviann Cunningham 

Caroline Roe 

Mary Frederick 

Miss Ann Ward 

Phebe Ward 

Mrs Ross 

Mrs London 

Mrs Tibbits Theobauld 

Mrs De3'son 

Miss Deyson 

Eliza Dawson 

Aletta Vandevoort 

Mrs McNeill 

Sarah Lepner 

Ann Thatford 

Maria Gordon 

Mrs Bacon 

Mrs Titus 

Mrs Dawson 

James Valentine 

Miss Rowland 

Miss Lyde 

Sarah Wickham 



OF GRACE CHURCH 389 

Mary Wickham 
Mrs Strickland 
Mrs Margaret Kissam 
Mrs Ann Kissam 
Lawrence Denton 
Reported 1821/70 
Rebecca Denton 

Miss Denton 

Nancy Welling 

Mrs Widow Hicks 

Mrs Obedh Valentine 

Miss Maria Hicks 

Mrs Jackson 

Miss Valentine 

Elizabeth Valentine 

Mrs Waters 

Mr Smith, of Fosters Meadow 

Mrs Smith wife 

Mrs Smith mother 

Susan Hoagland 

Obh Valentine 

Mrs Welling 

Communicants of Grace Church, Dec. 1, 1909. 

Allen, Miss Ella 
Allen, Mrs. Gertrude 
Allen, Miss. 

Anderson, Miss Jeanette S. 
Andreu, Mr. Frank B. 
Andreu, Mrs. Isabel A. 
Andreu, Miss Helen. 
Andreu, Miss Florence C. 
Andreu, Miss Isabelle W. 
Arnold, Mrs. Emily . 
Arnold, Miss Mabelle R. 
Arnold, Miss Emily A. 
Arnold, Mr. Wilford C. 
Archer, Mrs. Jennie W. 
Apgar, Arthur. 
Apgar, Mr. Frederick T. 



390 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Apgar, Mrs. Frederick T. 
Aymar, Miss Catherine O. 
Aymar, Mr, Samuel E. 
Aymar, Mrs. Samuel E. 
Aymar, Mr. Harry C. 
Baker, Mr. B. W. 
Baker, Mrs. B. W. 
Baker, Mrs. Eleanor. 
Baker, Mrs. Helen Hill. 
Baker, Miss Edna Napier. 
Baker, Mr. Elmer. 
Baker, Mr. Frederick Dunton. 
Baker, Miss Louise Woods. 
Baldwin, Mr. Clarence M. 
Ballard, Mrs. Julia Deming. 
Bassett, Miss Eloise P. 
Bassett, Mr. Philip J. H. 
Bassett, Mrs. Caroline A. 
Bassett, Miss Christiana. 
Bassett, Miss Grace. 
Bateman, Mrs. Florence C. 
Batley, Mr. George. 
Batley, Miss Adelaide. 
Beecher, Mrs. Anna. 
Beach, Miss Myrtle M. 
Beardsley, Mfss Ruth E. 
Bedell, Miss Ella A. 
Belden, Mrs. Harriet O. 
Belden, Charles A., M. D. 
Belden, Mrs. Lillian. 
Belden, Miss Gladys E. 
Bennett, Mr. Wesley H. 
Bennett, Miss Eugenia. 
Bennett, Mrs. Clara. 
Bennett, Miss Hattie B. 
Bennett, Marietta. 
Bennett, Mr. George. 
Bennett, Mrs. J. R. 
Bennett, Mrs. Josephine. 
Bennett, Miss Annie. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 391 

Bennett, Miss Edna. 
Bennett, Mr. James. 
Bennett, Miss Estelle. 
Bessemer, Mrs. J. P. 
Betts, Mrs. Emily H. 
Birchnell, Mr. Richard. 
Birchnell, Mrs. Caroline. 
Birchnell, Mr. Joseph B. 
Birchnell, Miss Constance M. 
Birchnell, Mr. Richard T. 
Birchnell, Miss Dorothy. 
Birchnell, Miss Lizzie May. 
Birchnell, Mr. James Gates. 
Bissell, Mrs. Emma L. 
Bissell, Jr., Mr. Charles H. 
Bisbee, Mrs. Hattie L. 
Bisbee, Miss Mabel W. 
Bisbee, Miss Helen. 
Bisbee, Mr. Herbert F. 
Bisbee, Mr. Robert A. 
Blanchard, Mrs. Kate A. 
Bird, Mr. John. 
Bird, Mrs. John. 
Bird, Mr. Louis. 
Bird, Miss Mary J. 
Blondell, Mr. Charles. 
Blondell, Mrs. Alice R. 
Blondell, Mr. Wyman. 
Booth, Miss Agnes. 
Boyd, Miss Hester W. 
Brackett, Mrs. Caroline T. W. 
Brackett, Mr. Anthony. 
Brackett, Mr. Robert White. 
Bradlee, Miss M. 
Brown, Mr. J. M. 
Brown, Miss Alma M. J. 
Brenton, Benjamin J. 
Brenton, Mrs. Orvetta H. 
Biickbee, Lewis C. 
Buckbee, Mrs. Emma S. 



392 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Buck, Miss Helen D. 
Buck, Miss Edith S. 
Burtis, Mrs. Caroline W. 
Burtis, Mrs. 
Burtis, Miss Jean F. 
Burtis, Mrs. Helen E. 
Carman, Mr. Garry. 
Carman, Mrs. Laura. 
Carmichael, Mrs. Cornelia E. 
Charles, Mr. James M. 
Charles, Mrs. James M. 
Chickering, Mrs. Edwin. 
Christopher, Miss Ethel May. 
Church, Mrs. H. S. 
Clearwater, Mrs. M. 
Clearwater, Miss Ruth. 
Clements, Mrs. 
Clements, Mr. Lance. 
Clifton, Mr. Albert E. 
Cogswell, Mr. William S. 
Cogswell, Mrs. Henrietta. 
Cogswell, Miss H. Virginia. 
Cogswell, Miss Serena S. 
Cogswell, Miss Pauline G. 
Cogswell, Mr. Sterling C. 
Cogswell, Mr. George E. 
Cogswell, Mrs. Bertha H. 
Cornelias, Mrs. Martha G. 
Concilius, Miss Josephine. 
Concilius, Miss Irene. 
Conkling, Mr. Elbert L. 
Conkling, Mr. Edward L. 
Conway, Miss Alice Amelia. 
Cook, Mrs. Jenny. 
Cooke, Mrs. George K. 
Corser, Mr. Louis D. 
Corser, Mrs. M. M. 
Crane, Mr. Alden S. 
Crane, Mrs. Cornelia T. 
Crawford, Mrs. Mary Selma. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 393 

Creed, William. 
Creed, Miss Charlotte. 
Croucher, Daniel M. 
Crossman, Mrs. Rosa j\I. 
Crossman, Miss Helen L. 
Crossman, Miss Elma G. 
Crossman, Miss Julia M. 
Crowley, Miss Isabel. 
Curtis, Mrs. 

Damon, Mrs. Emma Louise. 
Damon, Miss Lulu Tremaine. 
Damon, Mrs. Jennie. 
Deam, Mr. Frank E. 
Deam, Mrs. Annie R. 
Denton, Mr. James. 
Denton, Mr. John S. 
Denton, Mrs. Ada C. 
Denton, Mr. Frank D. 
Detheridge, Miss Florence H. 
Dewey, Miss Ella C. 
DeWitte, Michael E. 
Donahue, Mrs. 
Donahue, Mr. Louis. 
Donahue, Mr. William J. 
Donahue, Miss Edna L. 
Easton, Mr. Frank L. 
Eger, Mrs. 
Eger, Miss Lucille E. 
Eger, Miss Helen. 
Epler, Miss Alice. 
Everett, Mrs. Josie B. 
Everett, Mrs. William. 
Fitzhugh, Mr. Arthur. 
Fitzhugh, Mrs. Carolyn. 
Fitzhugh, Mr. Edward. 
J'itzitugh, Roger Sherman. 
Fosdick, Mrs. John S. 
French, Mr. James B. 
French, Mrs. Flora Williams. 
Gale, Miss E. Gertrude. 



394 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Gaskall, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
Colder, Miss Sarah Elizabeth. 
Goodman, Mrs. Jenny V. 
Gildersleeve, Miss Lillian E. 
Griffith. Mr. Frank J. 
Griffith, Mrs. Henrietta. 
Hagner, Miss Charlotte A. 
Hagner, Miss Phebe. 
Haire, Mrs. L. De Silroy. 
Haire, Mr. Maxwell W. 
Haire, Mr. Cohardt W. 
Haire, Mr. Douglas. 
Hall, Mrs. John. 
Hallock, Miss Mable C. 
Hanna, Mr. Frederick. 
Hasler, Miss Harriet E. 
Hart, Miss Jennie C. 
Haynes, Mrs. Sarah A. 
Haynes, Miss Jessie E. 
Hennes, Mr. Joseph. 
Hellers, Mr. George N. 
Hellers, Mr. Charles P. 
Hellers, Mr. John Pear. 
Hellers, Mr. Leon Matthews. 
Herr, Miss Margaret F. 
Hewlett, Miss Mary. 
Hexamer, Mr. Frederick G. 
Hexamer, Mrs. Frederick G. 
Hexamer, Mr. Harold T. 
Hexamer, Mr. Edwin Graham 
Hicks, Mrs. Helen L. 
Hicks, Mrs. Minnie Thayer. 
Higgins, Mr. John. 
Higgins, Mrs. Florence C. 
Hooper, Mrs. Beekman. 
Hooper, Miss Hazel C. 
Holt, Mr. Douglas. 
Hubbell, Miss Eleanor. 
Huscher, Mrs. E. 
Huscher, Mr. Alexander. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 395 

Hnscher, Mr. Robert C. 
Hiischer, Miss Augusta D. 
Horan, Mr. Samuel J. 
Koran, Mrs. Jane Harriette. 
Hoffman, Mrs. Catharine. 
Hoffman, Miss Hilda. 
Hopkins, Mr. Frank E. 
Hopkins, Mrs. Frank. 
Hopkins, Miss Marion. 
Hunt, Mrs. Annie S. 
Humphrey, Mrs. O. D. 
Inman, Mrs. Harriett A, 
Inman, Miss Eva J. 
Jackson, Miss Isabel H. 
Jackson, Miss Ethalinda. 
James, Mrs. Laura. 
James, Mr. Godfrey M. 
Jameson, Mr. Charles. 
Jameson, Mrs. Louisa. 
Jarvis, Mr. William. 
Jarvis, Mrs. 
Jarvis, Miss Irma. 
Jones, Mrs. George K. 
Jones, Mrs. Richard O. 
Jones, Mr. Isaac L. 
Kamerer, Mrs. E. 
Kelley. Miss Ella May. 
Kendall, Mrs. Harriett L. 
King, Gladys. 
Kirby, Miss Constance M. 
Klaiber. Mr. Christian. 
Kurth, Mrs. Margaret. 
Ladd, Rev. Horatio Oliver. 
Ladd, Mrs. Harriet V. A. 
Ladd, Miss J. Eirene. 
Lee, Mrs. Henry W. 
Lawrence, James Henry. 
Liebler, Mrs. 
Liebler, Mr. Irving B. 
Llewellyn, Mr. W. D. 



396 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Llewellyn, Mrs. /Mary W. 
Lockwood, Mr. Charles A. 
Lockwood, Mrs. Ella Baker. 
Lockwood, Mr. Everett A. 
Lockwood, Mr. Francis G. 
Lodge, Mr. Augustus. 
Lyon, Miss Cornelia E. 
Martin, Mrs. J. 
McFarland, Miss Christina. 
McFarland, Mrs. R. L. 
McMahon, Mrs. R. J. 
Megale, Mrs. Abram. 
Megale, Miss Loretta Viola. 
Megale, Mr. Abram. 
Meadows, Mrs. Thomas H. 
Metzgar, Mr. Frederick. 
Metzgar, Mrs. Frederick. 
Metzgar, Mr. Frederick, Jr. 
Metzgar, Mr. August. 
Metzgar, Miss Pauline. 
Metzgar, Mr. Paul Albert. 
Metzgar, Mr. Arthur Jacob. 
Meynen, George K., AL D. 
Meynen, Mrs. Elizabeth E. 
Meynen, Mr. Philip K. 
Meynen, Mrs. Helen G. 
Miller, Miss Josephine W. 
Miller, Mrs. Eliza. 
Mitchell, Air. James. 
Mitchell, Mrs. James. 
Mitchell, Miss Eva J. 
Mitchell, Mr. Abbott Augustus. 
Mitchell, Mr. R. Bladgen. 
Michel, Mrs. Ella. 
Moran, Mr. Harry S. 
Moran, Mrs. 
Moran, Mrs. Edna. 
Morris, Mrs. George. 
Morris, Miss Anna Margaret. 
Morris, Mr. George Wolcott. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 397 

Morton, Mr. Sherwin. 
Munson, Mr. John A. 
Munson, Mrs. J. A. 
Murray, Mrs. Margaret. 
Murray, Miss Caroline A, 
Murray, Mrs, 
Murray, Miss Grace Irma. 
Napier, Mrs. Sarah E. 
Napier, Miss Sarah C. 
Napier, Mr. Charles C. 
Napier, Mrs. Julia C. 
Napier, Miss K. B. 
Needham, Mr. Henry I. 
Needham, Miss Eva. 
Newcomb, Mr. C. Jerome. 
Newcomb, Mrs. Candee M. 
Nisbett, Miss Amelia E. 
Noble, Daniel. 
Noble, Mrs. Annie. 
O'Brien, Mrs. Herbert A. 
Oborne, Mr. Ernest A. 
Oborne, Miss Aline E. 
Oborne, Mr. Harry Egbert. 
Oborne, Miss Bessie B. 
Oborne, Mr. Wilbur Aubrey. 
Otis, Mr. Roland Litchfield. 
Otis, Mrs. Mary Catharine. 
Painter, Mr. Charles T. 
Painter, Mrs. Charles T. 
Patrick, Mrs. Margaret. 
Payne, Mr. Alton T. 
Payne, Mrs. Alice S. 
Pell, Miss M. E. 
Pennell, Mr. 

Peterson, Mrs. Mary Judson. 
Preston, Mr. George W. 
Pett, Miss. 
Pette, Michael A. 
Pomeroy, Mr. C. St. John. 
Pond, Mrs. Laura G. 



398 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Price, Mr. Henry E. 
Price, Mrs. H. E. 
Purchase, Mr. Richard. 
Purchase, Mrs. C. C. 
Purchase, Mr. Clarence. 
Rapelye, Mrs. Martin W. 
Reese, Mr. Thomas M. 
Reese, Mrs. Sophie D. 
Ripp, Mrs. Annie M. 
Rickmeyer, Mrs. Frederick L. 
Roberts, Mrs. C. M. 
Roland, Mr. Edwin D. 
Roland, Mrs. Edwin D. 
Rose, Miss F. A. 
Ross, Mrs. Phenie S. 
Roupe, Miss. 
Rowan, Mrs. 
Rowan, Miss Lady S. 
Rogers, Mr. Franklin E. 
Sandusky, Mrs. Lena. 
Sandusky, Miss Viola. 
Say res, Mr. Gilbert B. 
Seabury, Miss Elizabeth E. 
Seabald, Mr. Henry. 
Schellenburger, Miss. 
Schoonmacher, Mr. George W. 
Schoonmacher, Miss Mary C. 
Searles, Mrs. Mary. 
Smelt, Miss Louisa. 
Simonson, Mr. Smith M. 
Simonson, Mrs. Adelaide. 
Simonson, Miss Augusta. 
Simonson, Miss Sadie L. 
Simonson, Miss Edna. 
Smith, Mrs. William. 
Smith, Mr. Charles. 
Smith, Mr. William. 
Smith, Mrs. J. H. 
Southard, Miss Mary Lee. 
Stocking, Mrs. S. S. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 399 

Stehlin, Mrs. Emma. 
Stehlin, Miss Gertrude. 
Stehlin, Miss Margaret. 
Stone, Miss. 
Stewart, Mrs. 
Stoutenberg, Mr. Gilbert. 
Stoutenberg, Mrs. 
Strerper, Mrs. Gertrude M. 
Stuart, Miss A. M. 
Sutphin, Mrs. H. 
Sutphin, Miss Caroline. 
Sutphin, Miss Marguerite. 
Sullivan, Miss Celestine. 
Tator, Mr. John P. 
Tator, Mrs. J. P. 
Taylor, Mr. Joseph B. 
Taylor, Mrs. Mary Ellen. 
Tatum, Mary E. 
Thornbury, Mrs. W. T. 
Toy, Miss Maude. 
Tripple, Miss Laura. 

Unwin, Mrs. Wm. 

Valentine, Mrs. 

Van Allen, Mrs. Henry A. 

Van Vechten, Mr. Roger A. 
Pryor. 

Van Wycke, Mrs. Elmira Mills 

Viegele, Mr. William K. 

Viegele, Mr. William J. 

Viegele, Miss Josephine J. 

Viegele, Miss Kate. 

Waters, Miss Mary Agnes. 

Waters, Miss Elizabeth. 

Waters, Miss Inez Catharine. 

Ward, Miss J. Gertrude. 

Webber, Mrs. 

Wiltsie, Mrs. Martin B. 

Wiltsie, Mr. James L. 

Wiltsie, Mr. Dudley. 

Wiltsie, Miss Alice Ethel. 



400 ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

Wilkinson, Mr. A. J. 
Wilkinson, Mrs. Maria. 
Westervelt, Miss Josephine A. 
Wheeler, Mr. F. W. 
Wheeler, Mrs. Frances C. 
Wheeler, Miss Bessie. 
Wheeler, Marjorie S. 
DeWitte, Mr. Michael F. 
Woolard, Miss Harriet J. 
White, Mr. Barclay. 
White, Mr. Theodore Ran- 
dolph. 
White, Mrs. Jennie G. 
Williams, Mrs. Annie Gertrude 
Wilson, Miss Sue. 
Webster, Miss Martha E. 



INDEX 



See also alphebetical list of communicants on pages 389 to 400 
not included in this Index. 



INDEX 



Abbott, F. E., M. D., 384. 
Aber, Jno., 282. 
Abrahams, Deborah, 317. 
Abrams, Charles and Phebe E., 

333- 
Abril, Hannah, Richard and 

Sarah, 270. 
AdaHne, Ehza, 336. 
Adams, Mary, 293. 
Adams, John, 121. 
Alburtus, James, 284. 
Alden, Elizabeth, 89, 253. 
Alden, John, 89. 
Alexander, James, 336. 
Allen, Andrew, 318. 
Allen, Clarissa, 305, 341. 
Allen, Elena, 305, 341. 
Allen, Hester and Zachariah, 

279. 
Allen, James, 305, 341. 
Allen, Maria. 321. 
Allen, Priscilla, 282. 
Allen. Wm., 335. 
Alleman, M., 136. 
Alonzo, Herbert, 336. 
Alsop, Abigail, 298, 301. 
Alsop, Deborah, 278. 
Alsop, Elizabeth, 283, 301, 324. 
Alsop. Thomas. 298, 339. 
Alsop, Richard, 29S. 
Altar Guild, 202, 204, 207, 222, 

250. 
Amberman, Miss, 100. 
Anderson, Aletta, 296, 338. 
Anderson. Clara, 296, 338. 
Anderson, Esther, 296, 338. 
Anderson, Isaac, 296, 338. 
Anderson. Jeremiah, 296, 338. 
Anderson,, John. 296, 338. 



Anderson, Joseph, 296, 338. 
Anderson, Marj, Elizabeth, 

Jonathan and William, 296. 
Andrson, Mr., 170. 
Anderson, Sarah, 296, 338. 
Andreu, F. D., 1S3. 
Andreii, Miss Florence and 

Frances, 205. 
Andreu, Mrs. Frank B., 204, 

233^ 244. 
Andros, Major, 27, 29. 
Ann, Thomas, 296. 
Anne. Queen, 37, 45. 
Archdeaconry of Queens. 244. 
Areson, Hannah, 285. 
Armstrong, James, 304. 
Arnold, Mary, 280. 
Arnold, Elizabeth, 270. 
Ashby, James, 182. 
Aspinwall, Elizabeth Scott, 318. 
Aspinvvall, Gilbert, 327. 
Aspinwall, John, 299, 341. 
Aspinwall, Mary and William, 

299. 
Aspinwall, Mr., 94. 
Aspinwall, Rebecca, 302, 385. 
Aspinwall, Sarah, 302. 
Austin, Mary P., 317. 
Austin, Mary Ann, 316. 
Austin, Nathaniel, 364. 
Avmar. Miss C. O., 183. 211, 

383- 
Aymar, Miss Jenny, 143. 
Aymar, Miss Kate. 233, 244. 
Aymar, Samuel S.. 151, 193, 

195, 244. 
Bacon. Mrs., 388'. 
Badgely. Phebe. 281. 
Bailey. James S.. 318. 



404 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Baker, Byron W.. 267. 
Baker, Clarence D., 215. 
Baker, Elizabeth, 299, 340. . 
Baker, Fred., 234. 
Baker, George, 299, 340. 
Baker, Hannah, 209. 
Baker, John and Mary, 340. 
Baker, Miss Louise, 214. 
Baker, Miss Edna N., 205. 
Baker, Mrs. Wm. C, 211, 2^^, 

244. 
Baker, W. C, 383. 
Baldwin, Rachel, 284. 
Ball, Peter, 293. 
Ballard, Mrs. Wm. J., 210, 2^7,. 
Banks, Sarah, 371. 
Bannister, Jno., 277, 285. 
Bannister, Mary and Eliza, 277. 
Banyan, George, 263. 
Barckley, Anthony, 303. 
Barclay, Mr. Rev., 88. 
Barden, Eliza. 304. 
Bardin, Edwin, 340, 357. 
Barker, Abigail E., Lydia and 

Gilbert, ^T,y. 
Barker, Charles H., 334. 
Barkley, Henry, 309. 
Barnard, Ensign, 356. 
Barnet, Susanna, 275. 
Barnet, William, 275, 283. 
Barrel, Clemence, 372. 
Barry, Edmund D., 115. 
Bartlett, Anna Marsh, 319. 
Barton, Abigail, 273, 274. 
Barton, Jno. and Elizabeth, 271. 
Barton, Joseph, 273, 274, 282. 
Barton, Lewis, 274. 
Barton, Mary and Jno., 2"/;^. 
Barton, Rachel and Thomas, 

273- 
Bartow, Basil J., 304. 
Bartow, Elizabeth, 270, 271. 
Bartow, Hannah, Amy, Sarah 

and Frances, 271. 



Bartow, Jno., 270. 271. 

Bartow, Mary, 270. 

Bartow, Rev. John, 38, 50, ^y, 

53, 231. 
Batten, Sarah Eliza, 310. 
Battersby, James, 287. 
Bay, Sarah, 293. 
Bayless, Samuel and Benjamin, 

271. 
Bay ley, William, 291. 
Baylis, Daniel, 362. 
Baylis, Thomas, 363, 368. 
Badel, Henry, 303. 
Beadel, Joseph Woodred, 309. 
Beard, Margaret, 336. 
Beard, Shirley, 215. 
Beaver Pond, 84. 
Beckly, William, 323, 387. 
Beck with. Charles, 319. 
Bedell, George, 334. 
Bedell, Miss Ella, 244, 384. 
Bedford, Catherine, 275, 279, 

287. 
Bedford, Jno., 275, 279, 284, 2S7. 
Bedford, Mary, 275. 
Beech, Rev. Dr., no. 
Beekman, Ann Payne, Sarah 

and Gerald, 296. 
Beekman, Col., 71. 
Beeckman, Garrett, 302. 
Begaw, Isaac, 298, 299. 
Begaw, John, 298, 339. 
Begaw, Nelly, 299, 341. 
Begaw, Susannah, 298, 299, 340. 
Behr, Caroline, 33'/. 
Bell. John, 357. 
Bell, Mrs. Adele, 182. 
Belden, Mrs. C. A., 153, 212, 

211, 213, 214, 233, 384. 
Belden, Rev. Charles, 183, 184, 

221, 230. 
Belden, Mrs., 160. 
Bellerd, Wm., 359, 365. 
Bennet, Edward T., 21 > 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



405 



Bennet, Isaac, 318, 360. 
Beunet, John H., 371. 
Bennett, Isaac, 359. 
Bennett, Ann, 317. 
Benton, Mary, 338. 
Beresford, Francis, 336. 
Berg, Mr., 221. 
Bergan, Elizabeth, Isaac, Mary, 

Rebecca and Susanna, 307. 
Began. Sarah, 301. 
Bergen, Abraham, 362. 
Bergen, Ann, 363. 
Bergen, Derick, 353, 361. 
Bergen, EHzabeth, 342. 
Bergen, Jacob, 357, 362, 369. 
Berger, John, 292, 355, 360. 
Bergen. Luke, 354, 362, 366. 
Bergen, Tunis, 354, 362. 
Berian, Rebecca, 303. 
Beriyan, Abraham, 303. 
Berkeley, Bishop, 35. 
Bernard, Augustus, Johannes, 

Daniel and Elizabeth, 268. 
Bernhardi, Mrs. Feodor, 213. 
Berriam, Abraham and Jane, 

292. 
Berrian, Mary, 342. 
Berry, Samuel VV., 155. 
Berton, Ann, Mary and Peter, 

296. 
Bessemer, Mr., 152. 
Bessemer, Mrs., 154. 
Betts, Agnes, 297, 339. 
Betts, Ann, 291, 292, 294. 300. 
Betts Family, 174. 
Betts. Catherine, 296, 338, 372. 
Betts, Elizabeth, 280. 
Betts, Emelia, 324. 
Betts, Mrs. Emily H., 183. 383. 
Betts. Jno., 272, yjz. 
Betts, Justice William, 198. 
Betts, Mary, 269. 272, 273, 287, 

Z7^' 308. 
Betts, Mrs. Beverley. 204, 225, 

233- 



Betts, Nathaniel, 308, 343, 357. 
Betts, Rev. Beverly R., 156, 198. 
Betts, Richard, 198. 257, 259, 

269, 2'/-^, 278, 286, 287, 350, 

352, Z72. 
Betts, Richard, Jr., 86, 174, 180. 
Betts, Sarah, 295, 358. 
Betts. Susannah, 292, 298, 301, 

303, 340. 
Betts, Thomas, 259, 273, 285, 

370. 
Betts, William, 182, 307, 343, 

y:>7^ 364- 
Beveridge, Archdeacon, 48. 
Bi-Centenry Celebration, 228, 

231. 
Billup, Thomas, 302. 
Billup, Mary Lawrence, 308. 
Billup, Frances, 310. 
Birchell, Phebe, 295. 
Birdsall, Nathan, 283. 
Bisbee, Mrs. H., 22-^. 
Bissell, Charles E., 233. 
Black Camp at Hempstead, 212. 
Blackwal, Jacob, 278. 
Blackwel, Jacob, Mary and 

Sarah. 270. 
Blackwell, Miss, 386. 
Blackwell, Sarah, 285. 
Blagg, Edward, 271, 287. 
Blagg. Johanna, 271, 287. 
Blanchard. Mrs. A. J., 225. 233. 
Blanchard, Mrs. Kate P., 211, 

244. 384- 
Blank, Elizabeth, 292. 
Blondel, Charles, 18^, 193, 244, 

383- 
Blondel, Mrs. Charles, 225, 233, 

244. 
Bloodgood, Mary. 286. 
Bloome, Jane, 319. 
Bloomer, Rev. Joshua. 9S, loi, 

585- 



406 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Mr. Bloomer's death, 103, 109. 
Board of Associates, 196. 
Bogardus, Antony, 371. 
Bogle, William, 356. 
Bonney, James, 301. 
Bottome, George, Mary, Phyllis 

and Wilmot, 172. 
Bottome, Mrs. Margaret, 105. 
Bottome, Rev. Francis, 165. 
Bottome, Rev. William M., 165, 

166. 
Box, Keziah, 318. 
Boyd, Rev. Melville, 160. 
Bond, Sarah, 304. 
Bogert, Cornelius T., 181. 
Boning, George, 339. 
Bonney, Elizabeth and George, 

297. 
Bonney, James, 293, 297. 
Boroughs, Lydia, 324. 
Bouchica, Blakeney, Catherine, 
Christopher, John, Thomas and 
William. 298'. 
Bouchica. Christopher, John, 

Thomas and William, 340. 
Bouton, Nathan, 293. 
Bowe, Mrs., 181. 
Bowne, Eliza, 318. 
Bowie, Mrs. Hays, 386. 
Boyd, James, 294. 
Boyd, John L., 294. 
Boyd, Miss Hester, 184, 205, 

209, 211, 244. 
Boys' Club of Grace Church, 

206, 245. 
Bracht, Edwin C, 215. 
Bradford. Gov., 14. 
Bradlee, Ann, 371. 
Braint, Thomas, 257, 259. 
Brashier, Elizabeth, 323. 
Brasher, Mrs., 181, 386. 
Brasher, Miss, 386. 
Brass, Catherine, 275, 285. 
Bray. Dr. Thomas, 35, 38, 40, 

41. 



Breck, Mrs. Anna Duer, 184. 
Bremner, John, 361, 365. 
Brenton, B. J., 183, 185, 193, 

200, 202, 383. 
Brenton, J. J. and Sons, 182. 
Brenton, Miss Elizabeth, 203, 

207, 244. 
Brenton, Mr., 124, 126, 251, 

252, 176. 
Brenton, Mrs. B. J., 202, 225, 

23Z, 244. 
Brenton, Rev. Cranston, 202. 
Brewer, Elizabeth, Ti^t,^ o^S- 
Brewer, Mrs., 181. 
Bridge, Mrs. Elizabeth, 62. 
Bridges, Timothy, 86, 180. 
Brierly, George, 234. 
Bright, Hon. John, 166. 
Brimmer, John, 351. 
Brinckerhoff, Hendrick, 1 37, 

182. 
Brinkerhoff, Isaac, 368. 
Brinkerhoof, Richard, 363. 
Briney, Mary, 335. 
Bristow, Edward, 292. 
Brooks, James, 181. 
Brooks, Mr., 176. 
Brooks, Phillip, 281. 
Brooks, Rocliffe H., 205, 206. 
Brooks, Sarah, 319, 371. 
Brooks, Wm. and Daniel, 371. 
Brown, Catherine, 274, 275. 
Brown, Charity, 274, 276, 287. 
Brown, Dudley, 364. 
Brown, Elizabeth, 314. 
Brown, Eliza Maria, 125. 
Brown, Eliza Mary Ann. T)?^- 
Brown, George, 292. 
Brown, Hester, 275, 276. 
Brown, James L., 372. 
Brown, John, 281, 311, 2>V, 335. 
Brown, Josiah, 327, 361, 363, 

364, 368. 
Brown, Miss Eliza, 385. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



407 



Brown, Polly, 361. 

Brown, Thomas, 274, 275, 276, 

284, 2^y. 
Brown, Widow, 322. 
Browne, J., ]r., 213, 241. 
Browne, J., 213. 

Browne, Miss Gertrude B., 214. 
Brown John, Frank, 369. 
Brownjohn, Maria Ann, 298, 

340. 
Brownjohn, Samuel, 298, 324. 
Brownjohn, Thomas, 341. 
Brundige. James, 292. 
Brush, Rev. W. P., 160. 
Brush, Eve, 371. 
Bryan, Archdeacon, 229, 244. 
Bryan, Rev. Henry P., 230. 
Buckbee, Abigail, 342. 
Buckbee, Benjamin, 301, 306, 

342. 
Buckbee, Hannah, 303, 306, 342. 
Buckbee, L. C, 244. 
Buckbee, Nancy, 306. 
Buckbee, Sarah, 306, 342. 
Buckley, Mrs. Nora King, 1S6. 
Bugbee, Sandford, 371. 
Burdett, Edward, 320. 
Burger, John, Miriam and 

Phebe, 296. 
Burger, Phebe, 339. 
Burgess, Bishop, 216, 231, 244. 
Burgess, Mary, 281. 
Burgess, Rev. Dr., 230. 
Burgess, Rt. Rev. Frederick W. 

D. D., 225, 228, 230. 
Burling, Elizabeth, 308. 
Burling, Sarah x\nn, 319. 
Burling, Elizabeth, 343. 
Burling, George, 291. 
Burling, Joseph, 351. 
Burning of Grace Church, 179. 
Burroughs, Anna, 302. 
Burroughs, Lydia, 301, 309. 
Burrows, Benjamin, 298, 340. 



Burrows, Deborah, 270, 268, 287. 

Burrows, Freelove, 268, 269. 

Burrows, Jno., 268, 269. 

Burrows, Joel, 268, 270, 287. 

Burrows, Joseph and Lydia, 

Burrows, Jud, 318. 

Burrows, Mary, 268. 

Burrows, Stephen, 269. 

Burrows, Thomas, 270, 287. 

Burrough, Mrs. Mary White- 
head, 57. 
. Burtis, Caroline, 383. 
' Burtis, C. W., 183. 

Burtis, Lucy, ^t,t,. 

Burtock, Abigail, 293. 

Burtis, C. E., 151, 185. 

Butler, Mr., 170. 

Byenne, Emma M., 334. 

Cady, Mr., 221. 

Caldwell, Joseph, 303. 

Callison, Elizabeth, 372. 

Camagne, Augustus, 319. 

Camp, Miss Phebe, 115. 

Cufield. M., 176. 

Crey, Miss Alice, 213, 214. 

Carl, John, 284. 

Carman, Ann Eliza, 317, 325. 

Carman, Hannah, 281. 

Carman, Washington Joseph, 

317- 
Carman, Samuel, 366 
Carmichael. Rev. Wm. M., 124. 
Carpenter, Ann, 297, 339. 
Carpenter. Benjamin. 325, 357, 

358, 359, Z^2. 
Carpenter, David, 368. 
Carpenter, Hannah, 295. 
Carpenter, Increase, 363, 364. 
Carpenter, Jacob, 351, 363, 364, 

367. 371- 
Carpenter, James, 322. 
Carpenter, John, 358. 
Carpenter. Joshua, 351. 
Carpenter, Mary, 303, 321. 



408 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Carpenter, Mr., 176, 176. 
Carr, Jno., 284. 
Carr, Rachel, 292. 
Carr, Vashte, 293. 
Carter, Caroline, y/^)- 
Carter, William Henry, 316. 
Cavalry Division Hospital, 214. 
Ceba, Ann, 369. 
Cebra, Catherine, 360. 
Cebra, Nancy, 306, 354. 
Chadwick, Miss Alma, 214. 
Chamberlain, Mr. John, 44. 
Chambers, John, 73. 
Channing-, Elizabeth, 339. 
Chapin, Miss Leila, 214. 
Chapman, David, 294. 
Charitable Assn. of Grace 

Church, 154. 
Charles, Hannah and William, 

287. 
Chickering, Mrs., 233. 
Choir Leadership, 202. 
Creighton, James, 356. 
Christine, Mary, 285. 
Church of All Saints. 199. 
Church, Mrs. H., 244. 
Church, John B., 317. 
Church of the Messiah, 206. 
Church, Mrs. Lillian Ladd, 210. 
Church, Oliver Alden, 253. 
Church, Rev. F. H., 230. 
Church Charity Foundation, 224. 
Churchill, Edward, 281. 
Churchyard Endowment Fund, 

185, 186. 
Cisco, Phebe, 334. 
Clark, Andrew, 86. 
Clark, Catherine, 373. 
Clark. Rev. Charles G., 231. 
Clark, 339, 297. 
Clark, Hannah, 297. 
Clark, Heman, 297. 
Clark, Mr., 176. 
Clarke, Addison, 296, 338. 



Clarke, Andrew, 180. 
Clarke, Hannah, 296. 
Clarke, Heyman, 292. 
Clarke. Heman, 296. 
Clerkson, David M., 292. 
Clay, Atlanta, 282. 
Clement, Benjamin, 387. 
Clement, Margaret, 271, 2y2)- 
Clement, Mary. 2^2)- 
Clement, Misses, 135. 
Clay, Mary. 
Clement, James, 271. 
Clement, John, 271, 273. 
Clement, Rebekah, 291. 
Clement, Sarah, 285. 
Clements, Mr. and Mrs., 387. 
Clemens, Iday, 270. 
Clemens, Jno., 270, 271. 
Clemens. Nathan, 270. 
Clemens, Margaret, 270, 271. 
Clemens, Sarah. 270. 
Clijtendaele. Paulus Moulire, 

174. 
Clout, Ann, 296, 338. 
Clout, Cathrine, 296. 
Clowes. Alette, 284. 
Clowes. Catherine, 268. 270, 

271. 273, 286, 373. 
Clowes. Elizabeth A., 387. 
Clowes, Geradus, 273, 275. 
Clowes, Jno., 275. 
Clowes. Joseph, 271, 373. 
Clowes, Millicent, 285. 
Clowes, Peter, 268. 
Clowes, Mary, 273. 
Clowes, Samuel, 86, T76, 180, 

268. 270. 271. 273. 286. 
Clowes, Sarah, 2y^. 275. 
Clowes. Timothy. 115. 291. 
Clowes, Valentine. 387. 
Coane. John M., 222. 
Cockell. John, 352. 
Cockifa, Jane, 280. 
Codwise, Anna. 315, 386. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



409 



Codwise, Alexander, 314, 323, 

Codwise. George, 182, 2^2"], 369, 

370. 
Codwise, Mrs. Catherine H., 245. 
Codwise, Hamilton, 386. 
Codwise. Jane, 388. 
Codwise, John B., t8i, 319. 
Codwise, Mary, 181, 385. 
Codwise, Mr., 114. 
Codwise. Theodore Octavius, 

Coe, John. 

Coe, Nehemiah, 352, 353, 369. 

Coes, Samuel, ^i^^^)- 

Cogswell, Alma Sterling, 184. 

Cogswell, Francis J., 183, 184. 

185, 222. 
Cogswell, George, 164, 216, 233. 
Cogswell, H. v.. 206. 
Cogswell, Miss Pauline. 209, 244. 
Cogswell, Theodore J-. 164. 
Cogswell, Theodore J.. 201. 
Cogswell, Miss \'irginia, 183. 

184, 203, 244. 
Cogswell. William. 164. 251, 

383 . 
Cogswell, William J., 137, 189. 
Cogswell, William S., 164, 182, 

184, 193, 222, 229, 233. 
Cogswell, ]\Irs. \\ . S.. 183, 225. 

Coit, John, 367. 

Golden, Cadwallader, 257. 263. 

Golden, David, 350. 

Coler. William, 367. 

Coles. Abraham, 364. 

Coles. William, 333. 

Coles. Martha Ann, '^t^'^^. 

Coles. Phebe E., 2>Z?i- 

Colgan, Fleming, 87. 360. 

Colgan, John. 87. 

Colgan. Judith. 87. 

Colgan. Mary, 85. 363. 



Colgan, Rev. Thomas, 56, 76, 86, 
180, 184, 193, 245, 297, 339. 
Colgan s. Rev. Wm. death, 87. 
Collins, Abraham, 285. 
Columbia University, 198. 
Colyer, Abraham, 351. 
Golyer, Mary, 359. 
Combs, Elizabeth, 273. 
Combs, Gersia, 324. 
Combs, Gilbert. 350. 
Combs, John. 273. 
Combs, Keziah, 359. 
Combs, Mary, 273. 
Combs, Phebe, 2^2), Z7-- 
Combs, Richard, y^^ 
Combs, Richard. 2']2,- 
Combs, Solomon, 273. 
Comellas. Miss, 209, 244. 
Comes. Charitv & Richard, 274, 

277. 
Comes, John, yj^- 
Comes, Mary, 274. 
Comes, Sarah, 291. 
Comes, Thomas, 277. ' 
Comts, John, 257, 259. 
Condale, Thomas. 282. 
Consecration service, 228'. 

Conklin, Jacob. 370. 

Contait, Elizabeth, 2)7^- 
Contoit, Francis Henry, 321. 
Cook. Mrs. Jennie, 45, 384. 
Cook, Rev. Jere., 230. 
Cook, Rev. Thomas. 201, 202. 
Cooke. Miss Annie K.. 203. 
Coon, Elizabeth, 292. 
Cooper, William, 370. 
Gorbine, Jabez, 294. 
Gornbury, Gov., 39, 50, 52, 54, 

68, 71, 71. iz- 
Corneille. Rev. Samuel J., 129. 
Cornell, Adelaide, 319. 
Cornell, Ann, 306, 342. 
Cornell, Rev. A. M.. 142. 
Cornell. Benjamin. 320. 



410 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Cornell, Gloriana, 279. 
Cornel], Hewlett, 328. 
Cornell, Isaac, 321. 
Cornell, Jno., 279, 280, 283, 291, 

353- 
Cornell, Mary, 294. 
Cornell, Margaret, 292. 
Cornell, Marsi, 269. 
Cornell, Richard, 269, 280, 318. 
Cornell, Sarnuel, 269, 352. 
Cornell, Thomas, 280, 286, 291. 

297. 
Cornell, Whitehead, 370. 
Cornhill, Elizabeth, 278. 
Cornwall, Jane E., 322. 
Cornwell, Croes, 133. 
Cornwell, Daniel, 129, 372, 386. 
Cornwell, Mrs. Harriet, 182. 
Cornwell, Miss Harriet W., 216, 

217. 
Cornwell, John, 372. 
Cornwell, "Phebe M., 333. 
Cornwell, Samuel, 334. 
Cortelyou, James, 114, 323, 372. 
Cortelyou, Aaron, 370, 372. 
Cortelyou, Peter, 328, 372. 
Cortelyou, Sarah L., 372. 
Cortelyou, Susan, 372. 
Cosby, Gov., 78, 80. 
Cosine, Jacob. 319. 
Cossart. Edward, 319 
Cotter, James, 294. 
Counsley, John, 292. 
Courtney, Bishop, 120. 
Cowes, Gilbert, 257. 
Cox. Caroline, 320. 
Cox, Dean, 229, 230. 
Cox, Edward, 279. 
Cox, Phebe, 279. 
Cox, Rev. Samuel, 230. 
Cox, Thomas, 215. 
Caft, Daniel, 317. 
Caft, Gilbert, 321. 
Crane. Alden, 3S3. 



Crane, Rev. Elias W., 132, 247. 
Crane, Harriet Seabury, 176, 

182, 222. 

Crane, John M., 152, 169, 176, 

183, 193, 228, 243, 250. 
Creed, Wm., 143, 279, 285, 287, 

322, 366, 367. 
Creed, Augustus, 372. 
Creed, Benjamin, 3^52, 353, 361. 
Creed, Miss C. L.,^383. 
Creed, Charlotte, 299, 307, 327. 
Creed, Cornelius, 295. 
Creed, Corsicana, 364. 
Creed, Elizabeth, 283, 307, 342. 
Creed, Eliza, 319. 
Creed, Gilbert, 368, 371. 
Creed, Hewlett, 299, 307, 310, 

360, 362, 363, 364. 368. 
Creed, Mrs. Hewlett, 387. 
Creed, Jem, 279. 
Creed, Jane, 299, 341. 
Creed, Mary, 278, 279. 
Creed, Richard, 369, 370. 
Creed, Sarah, 309. 
Creighton, James, 293, t^^j, 362. 
Crews, David, 215. 
Crommeline, Charles, 350, 366. 
Crommeline, Henry, 321. 
Crommelin, Robert, 295, 303, 

329, 359- 
Crook. Aug., Wm. and Marv, 

268. 
Grossman, F. G., 176, 384. 
Crovegers, Tryntie, 20. 
Croxon, Francis, 279. 
Culver, George, 310. 
Cummings, Ann, 317. 
Cummins, Jno., 276. 
Cummins, Thomas. 276. 
Cunningham. Elviann, 388. 
Curtis, Benjamin. 182. 
Cutler, Dr., 39. 
Cutting. Mr., toi. 
Cuyler, Henry, 64. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



411 



Dalton, Elizabeth, 304, 341. 

Danion, Miss, 233. 

Damon, Mr. G. W., 384. 

Damon, Mrs. Frederick, 233. 

Damon, Mrs. George C, 184. 

Damon, Mrs. George W., 183. 

Daniel, Benjamin, 341. 

Daniel, John, 292. 

Dacee, Elizabeth, 280. 

Dashwood, Ann, 297, 339. 

Dashwood, Francis, 294. 

Davenport, Rev. G. W., 230. 

Davids, Rebecca, 284. 

Davies, James, 276. 

Davis, J. Bancroft, 185. 

Davis, Mrs. J. Bancroft, 143, 
186. 

Davis, Mrs. Alice, 186. 

Davis, Thomas, 215. 

Dawson, Elizabeth, 297, ^Jt,, 
388. 

Dawson, Gilbert, 297, 339. 

Dawson, Henry, 297. 

Dawson, Jane, 2)72)- 

Dawson, John, 363. 

Dawson, Miss, 181. 

Dawson, Mrs., 388. 

Dawson, William. 293. 

Dayton, Jacob, 280. 

Deakin, John, 292. 

Dean, Abigail, Abraham, Benja- 
min, Catherine, Cuzziah, 
Jno., Mary, Patience, Phebe, 
Rachel and Stephen, 272. 

Dean, Deborah, 269, 272. 

Dean, Elizabeth, 269. 

Dean, Hannah, 272, 287. 

Dean, Jacob, 271, 287, 351. 

Dean, John, 73. 

Dean, Joseph, 269, 272, 278, 
282. 

Dean, Samuel, 272, 281, 287. 

Dean, Sarah, 272, 282. 

Deane, WiUiam, 291. 



Debtor's Prison, 20. 

Degruske, Robert, 314. 

DeNeiland, Lucretia, 2>72)- 

Delafield, Dr. F., 185. 

Delancy, Balthus, Esther and 
Stephen, 297. 

De Mill, Abraham, 2)7Z- 

De Mott, Ann, 320. 

Denio, Abraham, Mary and Na- 
thaniel, 297. 

Denman, Mary, 281. 

Denton, Amos, 351, 369. 

Denton, Catherine, 281. 

Denton, Daniel, Hannah and 
Jno., 273. 

Denton, Frank D., 183, 233. 

Denton, George, 183. 

Denton, James L., 183, 222, 367, 
?>??>, 388. 

Denton, John L., 182, 183, 193, 

?>7Z,' ?>'^i- 
Denton, Lawrence, 129, 181, 

Z7Z, 389- 
Denton, Martha, 322. 
Denton, Mrs. John L., 169, 225, 

Denton, Nathaniel, 351, 361, 

364- 
Denton, Phebe, 321. 
Denton, Rebecca, 2,72)^ Z^9- 
Denton, Robert, y2>, 124. 353. 
Denton, Samuel, 366. 
Denton, Sarah, 318'. 
Denton, Solomon, 282. 
Denton, Timothy, 358. 
Denton, Thomas, 360. 
Depeyster, Ann, 303, 364. 

(See also Peyster.) 
Depeyster, Eve, 314, 363. 373. 
Depeyster, Catherine, 373. 
De Peyster, James, 341, 353, 373. 
Depeyster, Joseph Reade and 

Margaret, 292. 
Depeyster, Mary, 295. 



412 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Depcyster, Miss Sarah, iii. 
Depeyster, Sarah, 393. 
Derbyshier, Daniel, 294. 
Derickson, Charity, 284. 
Derickson, Mary and Walbrough. 

285. 
De Stille, Nicasius, 20. 
Dethericlge,, Miss Florence, 211, 

225. 
Detheridge, Mrs. F. F., 213, 214, 

225, 228. 
Devine, Mary, 293. 
Devoise, James, 310. 
Dewint, Mary Margaret, 318. 
Deyson, Miss, 388. 
Deyson, Mrs., 388. 
Dickson, Captain William, 174, 

Z72>- 
Digby, Admiral, 294. 
Kirby, Mrs., 214. 
Directory of Grace Parish, 207. 
Disbrow, Henry, 292. 
Dissenters, 67, 68, 69, y2, S3, 88. 
Dissenting Meeting House, 48. 
Ditmas, John, 369. 
Ditmas, Abraham, 359. 
Ditmas, John, 360, 366. 
Ditmus, Abraham, 351, 303. 
Ditmns, Catherine, 296. 
Ditmus. Daw, 356. , 
Ditmus, Dowd, 296, 338. 
Ditmus, Douvve, 296, 338. 
Dizart, Mary, 279. 
Dizer, Jno.. 286. 
Doak, Mary, 292. 
Doane, Bishop William, 129. 
Doane, George Washington, 129. 
Dobbs, Elizabeth and Mary, 296. 
Dobbs, Jarvis, 292, 296. 
Dobbs, Mary, 338. 
Dockerty, Mrs. A., 387. 
Dodge, William, 304. 
Donations to Grace Church, 178. 
Donghan, John Carlton, 294. 



Dorland, Garrett, 358. 
Doughty, Abigail and Elizabeth, 

294. 
Doughty, Benjamin, 283. 
Doughty, Charles, Charity and 

Mary, 279, 
Doughty, Deborah, 291. 
Doughty, Jane, 321. 
Doughty, John, 354. 
Doughty, Harriet, 303. 
Doughty, Rev. Francis, 17. 
Doughty, Thomas, 285. 
Downing, Deborah, 319. 
Downing, W., 234. 
Doxy, Sarah, 319. 
Drake, Benjamin, 295. 
Dickert, Ernest, 215. 
Dudley, Col, 43, 45, 46. 
Dudley, John, 300, 360, 364, 7,y2>- 
Dudley, Mary, 2)72>- 
Dudley, William, 354. 
Duers, 194. 
Duer, Miss Amy H., Miss Sarah 

Grace, Mrs. Anna V. R., 

and Denning, 186. 
Duer, Col. William, 198. 
Duffell, Richard, ■T)'J2)- 
Dunbar. Eliza and Mary, T,y2>- 
Dunbar, Joseph, 366. 
Duncan, Thomas, 296, 338. 
Duncan, William, 387. 
Dungan, Gov., 28'. 
Dunham, Asa, 234. 
Dunham, Ray, 233. 
Dunnalson, James, 270, 279. 
Dunnalson. Mary, 270. 
Dunn. Alexander, 306, 342. 
Dunn. Carey. 361, 365. 
Dunn, Deborah. 301, 306. 
Dunn. John. 295, 301, 306, 364, 

369- 
Dunn, Kendcl, 306, 342. 
Dunn, Mr.. 114. 
Dunnbarr, John, 292, 297. 



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413 



Dunbar, Aletta, 296. 
Dunbar, Elizabeth, 296, 338. 
Dunbar, George, 352, 355. 
Dunbar, John, 296, 339, 354. 
Dunbar, Joseph, 350, 351, 357. 
DurHng, EHzai:)eth, 303. 
DurHng, Garritt and John, 292. 
Durham, Thomas, 291, 293, 304. 
Durye, Jacob, 357. 
Durye, John, 3(37, 368. 
Durye, Ruleif, 351. 
Duryea. Cornehus H., 182. 
Duryea, Jacob, 350. 
Duryea, Anna, 306. 
Duryee, Roloef, 306, 342. 
Dusenburie. Hannah, 280. 
Dutch Colonial Period, 13. 16. 
Dutch Consistory, 27. 
Dusenbury, Henry, 278. 
Dutch, Re formed Church, 27. 
Duval, Miss Susanna, 150. 
Dyson, Mrs., 181. 
Edwards, Joshua, 280. 
Edwards, Mrs. Starr, 100. 
Edwards, ]Mrs. C, 160. 
Edgar, Mrs. Alice Bayard, 186. 
Edget. Elizabeth, 283. 
Eigenljrodt, Rev. Lewis E. A., 

176, 181, 2>2Z, 385. 
Eigenbrodt, Mrs., 386. 
Eigenbrodt, Patrick Henry, 374. 
Eigenbrodt, Sarah, 374. 
Eigenbrodt, Rev. Samuel R., 

112, 119, 120. 122. 
Eigenbrodt, Rev. William Ernst, 

170. 
Eldred, Catalina. 307. 
Eldred, Eldred, 308. 343. 
Eldert, Harriet, 316. 
Eldert, Henry, 311. 
Eldert. Isaac, 321. 
Eldert. John, 340. 
Eldred. Maria. 307. 342. 
Eldred, Samuel, 307. 



Eldert, Mr., 114. 

Eldert, Abraham, Caroline, H. 

W., Harriet, Henrietta and 

Susan, 373. 
Eldert, Sarah, 374. 
Eldert. Samuel. 2)7 Z^ 2fV- 
Ellsworth, Mrs. Elizabeth V. R., 

186. 
Ely, Ann, 182. 

Ely, Joseph and Sarah, 296, 338. 
Ennes, John, 350. 
Evans, Rev. Evan, 52. 
Evans, Rev. W. P., 230, 233. 
Ennis, Wm., 365. 
Evans, John, 303. 
Evans, Richard, Thomas, Harry 

and Stephen, 268. 
Everet, Abraham, 277, 281. 
Everett, Bathsheba, 277. 
Everet, Benjamin, 352, 366, 

Z^7- 
Everet, Daniel, 363, 365. 
Everett, James, 277. 
Everet, John, 363. 
Everet, Nehemiah, 367. 
Everet. Nicholas, 360, 363. 364, 

365- 
Everet, Richard, 280. 
Everet, Sarah, 2"'j. 
Everett, Thomas, 2'j'j. 
Everet, Wright, 2yy. 
Everitt. Mrs. W. E., 212, 213, 

214. 
Evers, John, 295. 
Evers. Susanna, 306. 
Fairchild, Balthers, 339. 
Fairchild, Peter, 339. 
Fairchild, Elizabeth, 297. 
Fairchild, Peter, 297. 
Fairchild, Thomas, 292, 299, 302. 
Fall, Dr., 41. 
Farington, Nancy, 304. 
Farmer, John, 285. 
Farrington, Letitia, 294. 



414 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Farrington, Matthew, 292. 

Featherby, Jno., 284. 

Fennern, Chris, 215. 

Ferris, James, 318. 

Ferris, N. Kimberley, 202. 

Fidlar, George, 215. 

Field, Augustine, 294. 

Field, Dudley, 137. 

Field, Elizabeth, 295, 320. 

Field, Francis, 340. 

Field, Frederick, 304. 

Field, Hannah, 340. 

Field, Joseph, 353. 

Field, Richard, Sarah and Ste- 
phen, 340. 

Fish, Ambrose, 365. 

Fish, Ann, 301, 339. 

Fish, Elizabeth, 272, 291, 293, 
301. 

Fish, Jno., 272, 281. 

Fish, Nathaniel, 339. 

Fish, Sally, 306, 341. 

Fish, Sarah, 272, 374. 

Fish, Samuel, 78. 

Fleank, Lank, 370. 

Fletcher, Gov., 30, 30, 69. 

Fleury, Mrs. Jane, 184. 

Flewhellin, Catherine, 281. 

Flower, James, 280. 

Flower, John, 318. 

Flynn, Mrs. T. J., 213. 

Folliot, George, 354. 

Forbes, Mrs., 181. 

Forsseeil, John, 40. 

Fosdick, Fanny, 321. 

Fosdick, Mrs. Lewis L., 212, 
213. 

Foster. James, 362, 370. 

Foster, Jno., 280. 

Foster, Sarah, 318. 

Fowler, Abigail, 292, 303. 

Fowler, Rev. Andrew, 115. 

Fowler. Ann, 293. 

Fowler, Basheba, 292. 



Fowler, Benjamin, 280. 
Fowler, Cornelius, 320. 
Fowler, Jane, 308, 343. 
Fowler, Juliane, 293. 
Fowler, Mary, 269, 278, 308, 

343- 
Fowler, Martha, 319. 
Fowler, Oliver, 292. 
Fowler, Sarah, 293. 
Fowler, Stephen, 319. 
Fowler, Rebecca, 281. 
Fowler, William, 269, 287. 
Frances, Adalard, 371. 
Francis, Francis and Elizabeth, 

269. 
Francis, James and Nicholas 

W., 333. 
Francis, Jaspar, 269. 
Frederick, Charity, 334. 
Frederick, John, 336, 337. 
Frederick, Hiram A., 387. 
Frederick, Mary, 388. 
Frederick, Susan E., 334. 
Freeman, Maria, 314. 
Freeman, Robert, 86, 180. 
French, James, 383. 
French, J. B., 240. 
French, Mrs. J. B., 244. 
French, Joseph, 353. 
French, Mary, 292. 
Frost, Sarah, 281. 
Furman, Aaron, Abraham, 

George and William, 275. 
Furman, Alice, 270. 
Furman, Mary, 281. 
Furman, Martha, 278. 
Furman, Susanna, 285. 
Gale, Ann, 291. 
Gale, Miss Gertrude, 209, 213, 

214. 
Gale, Miss Mary R., 167. 
Gale, Mr., 152. 
Gale, Mrs. Adelia. 182. 
Gambrill, B. F., 215. 



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415 



Ganong, James Jervice, Joanna 

and Thomas, 296. 
Ganong, Jeremiah and Martha, 

270. 
Gardiner, Elizabeth, 280. 
Gardiner, Mr. Clement E., loi. 
Gardiner, Mrs. Clement E., 242. 
Garrason, Arianthe, 280. 
Garreson, Jane, 287. 
Garret, Hannah, 270. 
Garrett, Joshua, 293. 
Garrettson, Jno., 286. 
Gates, Horatio, 343. 
Gatore, John, 355. 
Gatler, John, 354. 
Gedney, Deborah, 294. 
Gedney, Elizabeth and Martha, 

293- 

Gemego, 18, 26. 

George, John G., 320. 

Gifts to the Church, 178. 

Gilbert, Rev. George, 125. 

Gildersleeve, Ann, 317. 

Gildersleeve, Sarah, 321. 

Giles, Mr., 91. 

Gilleen, Catherine, 322. 

Gilston, Miss Elizabeth, 182. 

Gleane, Wm., 357. 

Gleen, John, 358. 

Glenn. Ann, 268. 

Glenn, Thomas, 278. 

Glover, Rev. Herbert J., 231. 

Gold. Cecelia, 306, 342. 

Goldin, Catherine and Mat- 
thew, 272. 

Goldin, Eliza, 285. 

Goldin, Ephraim, 272, 273, 281. 

Goldin, Jno., 271, 272, 281. 

Goldin, Mary, 273. 

Goldin, Percival, 272. 

Goldin, Sarah, 271, 272. 

Goodin, Catherine. Jno. and 
Mary, 273. 

Goodman, Eliza. 320. 



Goodman, Miss Pauline, 214. 
Goodwin, Jno., 284. 
Goodwin, Judith, 302. 
Goodwin. Samuel, 295. 
Gordon's, Mr., untimely death, 

Gordon, Maria. 388. 

Gordon, Rev. Patrick, 40, 47. 

Gosline, Patience, 291. 

Gosling, John, 295. 

Gould, Miss, 183. 

Grace Chapter, 208. 

Grace Church, iii. 

Grace Church Chimes, 206, 

207, 214, 218. 
Grace Church, Rebuilding of, 

181. 
Grace Churchyard, 172, 199. 
Grace Circle of the Kings 

Daughters, 169. 
Grace Parish Social Guild, 206. 
Greenwich Bay, 18. 
Gracie, Marian, 320. 
Gracie, Mrs. William R., 135. 
Gracie, Nancie, 181, 388. 
Gracy, Daniel, 364, 366. 
Graham, James, 72. 
Grant, Robert, 385. 
Grassett, Augustus. 285. 
Grawi, Mary, 334. 
Green, Ann, 321. 
Green, Richard, 275. 
Greenoak, David Titus, 305. 
Greenoak, Deborah, 305, 341. 
Greenoak, Edward, 279. 304, 

305- 341- 
Greenoak, Elizabeth, 304, 309, 

341. 
Geenoak, John. 279, 291. 
Greenoak, Mary, 279, 285. 
Greenoak, Nathaniel, 304, 305, 

341- 
Greenoak, Richard, 305. 
Greenoak, Samuel, 181. 



416 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Greenoak, Sarah, 303, 341. 

Grego, Elizabeth, Mary, Marsi 
and Richard, 268. 

Gregson, Samuel, 297, 339. 

Greswold, Abigail, 374. 

Greswold, Thomas, 374. 

Griffen, Rev. F. S. 231. 

Griffin, Susanna, 283. 

Griffin, Keziah, 185. 

Griffith, John, 294. 

Grigg, John, 302. 

Grigsby, Sarah, 335. 

Griswold, Thomas, 365. 

Grover, Rev. George C., 231. 

Guild, Grace Church Charit- 
able, 224. 

Guion, Lewis, 291. 

Gurley, John, 322. 

Gymnasium, 219. 

Habersham, Miss, 323. 

Hadlock, Elizabeth, 269, 280, 
286. 

Hadlock, Miriam, 283. 

Hagerman, Elbert, 291. 

Hagner, Alexander. 151, i^"^, 
182. 

Hagner, Henry I., 132. 

Hagner. Miss Phebe, 136. 307, 
224, 233. 

Hagner, Misses, 383. 

Haight, Lester, 234. 

Ha.ight, Moses, 282. 

Llaight, Thomas, 308, 343. 

Hall, Mary, 293. 

Hallet. Benjamin, 304, 341. 

Hallet, Grace, 278. 

Hallet, Hannah and Jemima, 
292. 

Hallet, Harriet, 321. 

Hallet. Jno., 285. 

Hallet. Joseph, 270, 285, 305, 

307- 
Hallet, Lydia, 270. 307. 342. 
Hallet, Mary, 270. 304, 305, 307. 



Hallet, Moses and William, 

270. 
Hallet, Rebecca, 305, 307. 
Hallet, Richard, 305. 
Hallet, Sarah, 303. 
Hallet, Stephen, 305, 307. 
Hallet, Bridget, Jacob, Jno., 

Nathaniel, Sarah[, -Small 

and Thomas. 276. 
Hallett. Daniel, 292. 
Hallett, David, 293. 
Hallett, Elizabeth, 281. 
Hallett, George, 282. 
Hallett, James, 276, 339, 298. 
Hallett, Joseph, 276, 279. 
Hallett, Juda, 295. 
Hallett, Lydia. 276, 293. 
Hallett, Margaret, 322. 
Hallett, Martha, 276, 281. 
Hallett, Mary, 2y^, 279, 285, 

341- 
Hallett, Moses and Richard, 

279. 
Hallett, Rebekah, 298. 
Hallett, Samuel, 276, 342. 
Hallett, Stephen, 294, 298. 
Hallett, William, 269, 287. 
Halligan. Wm., 387. 
Halsey. Benjamin Roe, 317. 
Llalworth, Mrs., 386. 
Ham, Miss Eva, 214. 
Hammel, Wm. and Henry, 343. 
Hammell, Catharine, 301. 
Hammell, Rev. William. 109, 

300, 307. 
Hammersly, Lucretia, 303. 
Hammersley, Sarah, 87, 295. 
Hannahs, Thomas, 308, 343. 
Hanson, Catherine, 280. 
Hardy. Ann, 295. 
Hardy, Mrs. Elizabeth G., 186. 
Hardy, Sir Charles, 88. 
Hare, Elizabeth. 282. 
LLire, Martha, 304, 341. 



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417 



Hare, Samuel, 304, 341. 
Hardie, W. Allen, 320. 
Harries, William, 281. 
Harris, Dr. H. S., 214. 
Harris, Hannah and Mary, 2']2. 
Harris, Mrs. Charles H., 213. 
Harris, Rev. Mr. William, 115. 
Harris, Samuel, 335. 
Harris, Walter, 272, 281. 
Harrison, Richard. 294. 
Harrison, William, 82, 129. 
Hart, Rev. Seth, 115. 
Hartig, Mrs. Franz, 213. 
Hartshorn, Richard, 303. 
Hartshorn, William, 280, 304. 
Harvey, Mrs., 181, 386. 
Harvey, Elizabeth, 335. 
Hassler, Harriet, 383. 
Haviland, David, 292, 296. 
Haviland, Eugenia and Mary, 

296. 
Haviland, Eugunrea, 339. 
Hayt, Monson, 303. 
Hazalton, William, 284. 
Hazard, Catherine, 308. 
Hazard, Elizabeth, 287, 302. 
Hazard, James, 268, 271, 281, 

287. 
Hazard, Jonathan and Rebecca, 

268. 
Hazard, Pamela, 293. 
Hazard, William, 271. 
Hazzard, Catherine, 305, 341, 

343- 
Hazzard, Morris, 305. 
Heathcote, Caleb, Elizabeth 

and Martha, 2j-^. 
Heathecote. Col., 37, 39, 54, 58, 

61, y2, 74, 81. 
Heathecote. Martha, 177. 
Hedger, Jane, 280. 
Hedger, Sarah, 281. 
Hegeman, Joseph. Jr., J}^. 
Heigham, Rev. W. H.. 231, 

243- 



Hempstead, 18. 
Henderson, Abigail, 160, 374. 
Henderson, Charles C, 234. 
Hendron, William, 215. 
Hendrickson, Abraham and 

Samuel, 369. 
Hendrickson, Addra and Urias, 

327- 
Hendrickson, Aletta Anne, 321. 
Hendrickson, Bernardus and 

Henry, 368. 
Hendrickson, Charity, 295. 
Hendrickson, Ellas, 371. 
Hendrickson, Foster, 185. 
Hendrickson, Ida, 374. 
Hendrickson, Joseph, 317. 
Flendrickson, Mr., 114. 
Hendrickson, Uriah, 367, 368, 

370, 371, 374- 
Henry, xA.lexander, 233. 
Henry, Charles, 337. 
Henry, James, 339, 342. 
Hepburn, J. N., 215. 
Heptonstal, Antie, 282. 
Heptonstal, Jno., 286. 
Herriman, James, 360. 
Herring, Agness, 284. 
Flerny, James, 296, 339. 
Herny, Phillip and Susanna, 

296. 
Hersfield, Isaac, 328. 
Hersfield, Richard, 332. 
Hewlet, Gilbert V., 320. 
Hewlet, Jane, 303. 
Hewlett, Devine. T82. 
Hewlett, Frances, 317. 
Hewlett, Hannah, 385. 
Hewlett, Harvey D., 322. 
Hewlett, Isaac, 305, 341. 
Hewlett. Jane, 125. 
Hewlett. John, 326, 366. 
Hewlett. Lewis and Oliver, 

320. 
Hewlett. Martha, 182. 385. 



418 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Hewlett, Mr., 114. 
Hewlett, Rhoda, 305. 
Hewlett, Samuel and Town- 
send, 315. 
Hewlett, Sarah, 334, 340, 385. 
Heyler, Mrs., 386. 
Hicks, Abigail and William, 

279. 
Hicks, Ann Louisa, 325. 
Hicks, Charity, 280. 
Hicks, Charles and Helen, 383. 
Hicks, Charlotte, 341. 
Hicks, Elizabeth, 314, 374. 
Hicks, Elinor, 274, 279. 
Hicks, Hetty, 387. 
Hicks, Jane, 374. 
Hicks, John, 270, 274, 279, 295, 

306. 
Hicks, Maria, 310, 389. 
Hicks, Mary, 282, 374. 
Hicks, Mr., 114. 
Hicks, Mrs. Helen L., 181, 183. 
Hicks, Mrs. George A., 233. 
Hicks, Patience Susanna, 306, 

342. 
Hicks, Robert, 270. 
Hicks, Sarah, 291, 306, 327, 374. 
Hicks, Smith, 181, 374. 
Hicks, Stephen 284, 303, 310, 

328. 364, 368, 370, 374. 
Hicks, Susannah, 342, 385. 
Hicks, Thomas, 274, 308, 343. 
Hicks, Zelia C. and Major 

George A., 159. 
Higbie, Mr., 176. 
Higbie, John B., 321. 
Higby, Nathaniel, 351. 
Higby, Edward, Joseph and 

Mary. 
Higgins, Mrs. John, 211, 244. 
Higgins, Stephen, 339. 
Hill, Paul, 284. 
Hilton, John, 350. 
Hilton, William, 284. 



Hinchman, Anne, 314, 356. 
Hinchman, Benjamin, 364, 370. 
Hinchman, Catherine, 314. 
Hinckman Eliza, 306. 
Hinckman, John, 305, 362, 363. 
Hinchman, Miriam, 374. 
Hinckman, Mary, 305, 310. 
Hinchman, Rachel, 318. 
Hinchman, Robert, 353. 
Hinchman, Sarah, 366. 
Hinchman, Thomas, 352. 
Hinchman, William, 305, 341. 
Hincksman, Anne, 297, 352. 
Hinckman, Eleanor, 308, 343. 
Hincksman, Eliza, 342. 
Hincksman, James, 284. 
Hincksman, John, 353, 358. 
Hincksman, Mary, 297. 
Hincksman, Nehemiah, 365, 

366, 370. 
Hincksman, Sarah, 326. 
Hobart, Bishop, 113, 115, 116, 

119, 120, 129. 
Hobart, John Henry, 113, 116. 
Hobbs, Rev. J. H., 231. 
Hobbs, Robert, 285. 
Hodger, Jemima, Susanna and 

William, 273. 
Hoefer, Arthur, 215. 
Hoffman. Adrian, 335. 
Hoffman, Charles, 384. 
Hoffman, Mrs., 244. 
Holcomb, Jeremiah, 293. 
Holden, Archdeacon, 229, 230. 
Holden, Rev. William, 231. 
Hollall, Eve, 334. 
Holland, Susan, 318. 
Holmes, Bert, 233. 
Holmes, Abbey, 320. 
Holroyd, Elizabeth, 298, 340. 
Holrovd, John and Margaret, 

298. 
Holroyd, Margaret, 298. 
Holt, Douglas, 234. 



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419 



Homans, Rev. Rockland T., 

231, 250. 
Homans, Rev. Mr., 203. 
Honeyman, Rev. James, 51, 37, 

Honeywell, Elizabeth Ann, 

304. 

Hoagland, Cornelia, 323, 374. 

Hoog"landt, Elizabeth, 291, 316. 

Hoogland, John, 129, 181, 384. 

Hoagland, Susan, 389. 

Hook, Augustus, 334. 

Hooper, Thomas, 282. 

Hopkins, Frank E., 167, 202, 
229, 234. 

Hopper, Samuel, 295. 

Horan, Mrs. Jane H., 184. 

Horan, Mrs. S., 384. 

Horn, Thomas, 338. 

Hornett, Mary, 282. 

Horsfield, Catherine, 374. 

Horshfield, Israel, 283. 

Horshfield, Joseph, 351. 

Horton, James, 293. 

Horton, Simon, 88. 

Hosack, Alexander and dori- 
an a, 394. 

Houghton, Rev. George, 198. 

Houlroyd. Charles, 298, 339. 

Houlroyd, John, 279, 298. 

Houlroyd, Margaret, 297, 298. 

Houlroyd, Mary, 297, 339. 

Howel, Mary, 271. 

Howel, Robert, 257. 

Howel, Thomas, 281. 

Howell, Dinah, 269, 271, 287. 

Howell, Marv, 287. 

Howell, Robert, 86, 180. 

Howell, Samuel. 269. 

Howell, Thomas, 269. 271, 283, 
287. 

Hoyt, Jesse, 322. 

Hovt, Marv Colgan, Johanna 
" Smith, 87, 184. 



Hoyt, Mr., 176. 

Hubbard, Rev. John, 31, 51, 51, 

73- 

Hudson, Henry, 13. 

Hugans, Rachel, 269. 

Hughes, Anne Elizabeth, 337. 

Hughs, Jane and Thomas, 286. 

Hugins, Rachel, 280. 

Hulet, Lewis, 278. 

Hull, Dr., 173. 

Huls, Mary, 282. 

Hume, Ann and Elihu, 297. 

Hunt, Hannah, 292. 

Hunt, Hugh, 215. 

Hunt, Mary, 294. 

Hunt, Charles M. and Mrs. 
Annie S.. 183. 

Hunt, Robert and Thomas, 295. 

Hunter, Gov., 72, 74, 176. 

Hunter, Henry, John and Wil- 
liam, 374. 

Huntting, Phebe S., 335. 

Husher, Francis and Eliza, 335. 

Huske, Rev. Kirkland, 199, 230. 

Hustead. Elizabeth, Jabez and 
Mary, 296. 

Hustead, Elizabeth. 338. 

Huston, Charles, 215. 

Huston. James, 352, 355. 

Huston, James, 351. 

Hutchins, John, 257, 306, 324. 

Hutchinson, Thomas 337. 

Hyatt, Rachel, 295. 

Hyatt, Sarah, 295, 298 340. 

Hyatt, Thomas. 298 340. 

Hyler. Mrs., 181. 

Ichenbrock, Mr., 176. 

Inglis, Rev. Charles, 95, 98. 

Ingoldesby, Col. Lieut. Gov., 71. 

Innes, Rev. Alex, 53. 

L-eland, John, 115. 

Jackson, Isabel, 244. 

Jackson, John, William and 
Eliz., 269. 



420 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Jackson, Mr., 176. 
Jackson, Ethalinda, 205. 
Jackson, Mrs. Job, 181, 182. 
Jackson, Mrs. S. E., 250. 
Jackson, Mrs., 389. 
Jacobs, Grace, 284. 
Jamaica Club, 241. 
Jamaica Church Controversy, 

67. 
James, Hannah, 294. 
James, Julia, 383. 
James, Major, 352. 
James. Martin, 375. 
James, Mary, 285. 
James, Percy, 234. 
James, Thomas, 292. 
James, William, 341. 
Jarvis, Mrs. Wm., 383. 
Jeffry, William, 335. 
Jerman, Margaret, 284. 
Jervis, James, 23^- 
Jessup, Elizabeth, 374. 
Joel, William, 387. 
Johnson, Charles. 320. 
Johnson, Cornelia, 294. 
Johnson, Dr., 134, 201, 245. 
Johnson, Edward. 215. 
Johnson, Elizabeth, Mary, 

Samuel and William, 374. 
Johnson, George, 387. 
Johnson, Henry M., 193. 
Johnson, Rev. John Barent, 

126. 
Jackson, Isabel, 383. 
Johnson, M. G., 151. 
Johnson, Masson, 366, 368. 
Johnson, Mrs. H. A., 183. 
Johnson, Mrs. Mary E., 131. 
Johnson. Mrs. M. G., 182. 
Johnson, Mrs. Susan, 185. 
Johnson, Susannah, 319. 
Johnson, Theodore, 183. 222. 
Johnson, Rev. William Lupton, 

123. 128. 176, 183, 222. 



Johnson, Wm. Martin, 360. 

Johnson, Miss Virginia, 141. 

Joley, Jno., 285. 

Jones, Catherine, 284. 

Jones, Charles, 215. 

Jones. Edward, 275, 276, 2yy, 

283. 
Jones, Helecha, 340. 
Jones, Isaac, 327, 369. 
Jones, John, 296, 338, 369. 
Jones, John T., 181. 
Jones, Jonathan, 328, 369. 
Jones, Rev. J. Clarence, 231. 
Jones, Mary and Margaret, 268. 
Jones, Nicholas. 296, 338, 350, 

356, 366. 
Jones, Sarah, 275, 276, 327. 
Jones, Samuel, 277. 
Jones, Thomas, 275. 
Jones, Walter, 268. 
Jones, Wm., 321. 
Jordan, Stanley, 212. 
Joy, Elizabeth and Richard, 

274. 
Judkin, Francis. 282. 
Keer. Mrs., 386.' 
Keith, George, 40, 43. 45, 46, 

37' 53' 54- 
Kelly. Elizabeth. 299, 305. 
Kelly, Thomas, 294, 299, 305. 
Kemps, Eliza, Joanna and 

John, 375. 
Kenney, Nathaniel, 305. 
Ketcham, Theophilus, 278. 
Keteltas, Clarissa, 366. 
Keteltas, John, 368, 388. 
Kieft, Governor. 16. 
Kimball, Catherine, 278. 
Kimber, Rev. Joshua. 
Kimber, Rev. Robert B., 231. 
King, Archibald and Alsop, 

375- 
King, Charles. 152, 186. 
King. Mrs. Charles, 143, 186. 



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421 



King, Miss Cornelia, 85, 152, 

182, 195, 185, 204, 237. 
King-, Caroline, 185. 
King. Elizabeth, 186, 374. 
King, Ellen, 186, 375. 

King, Frederick and Henry, 

375- 

King. Mrs. Isabella C, 186. 

King, James (junior), 323. 

King. James Gore, 185. 

King, Mrs. James Gore, 186. 

King, Gov. John A., 85, 124, 
126, 133, 134, 137, 140, 143, 
165, 182, 185, 186, 189, 222, 

King, John A., Death of. 143. 
King, John A., Jr., 182. 
King Manor Park, 85. 
King, Mary C. 183. 
King. Mary Colden. 152, 222. 
King. Mary, 328, 199. 200, 374. 
King, Riifus, z^Z' 374- 
King, Mary Rhinelander, 160, 

183, 199, 222, 223. 

King, Hon. Riifus, 85, 11 1, 119, 
120, 121. 122, 122, 181, 199, 

370. 385- 

King. Mrs. Sarah Rogers. 182. 

King. Daughters of the, 208, 
209, 22^,, 240. 

Kingsberry. Martha, 182. 

Kingsbury, Mr., 386. 

Kinksman. Elizabeth. Obadiah 
and Thomas. 279. 

Kinley. Adam, Benj., Eliz.. Jo- 
seph and Martha, 275. 

Kippin. Walter. 281. 

Kirby, Charles M., 183. 

Kissam. Mrs. Ann. 182. 389. 

Kissam, B. T., i8r. 

Kissam, Benjamin. 181, 317. 

319. Z^7- 
Kissam, Catherine. 297. 339. 
Kissam. Daniel, 297, 305, 326. 

358, 361, 366. 370. 375. 384. 



Kissam. Elizabeth, 295. 
Kissam. Dr. George H., 182. 
Kissam. Joseph, 285. 
Kissam, Mrs. Margaret, 389. 
Kissam, Marv, 297, 305, 341, 

375- 
Kissam, Mr., 114, 176. 
Kissam. Peggy. 182, 317. 319. 
Kissam, Phebe, 322. 
Kissam, Tredwell. 368. 
Kneeland. Henry, 181. 
Knights of Temperance, 219. 
Knipschild, Henery, 293. 
Knoechel, Louis, 336. 
Koph, Frank, 216. 
Kowe, Elizabeth, 292. 
La Combe, Clara, 318. 
Ladd, H. Abbott, 253. 
Ladd, Miss Eirene, 183, 203, 

206, 233. 244, 253. 
Ladd, Gabriella M., 253. 
Ladd, Harriett X'aughan Abbott, 

-'53- 
Ladd, Rev. H. O., 183. 193, 212, 

230, 251, 267. 
Ladd. Mrs. H. O., 225. 
Ladd, Lillian Ladd Church, 

253- 
Ladd, Maynard. M. D., 253. 
Ladd, Vernon Abbott, 253. 
Ladies' Missionary Society, 

207. 
Laffan, Margaret, 293. 
Lake, James R. and Eliz., 125. 
Lallman. George, 334. 
Lamberson, Corsicana, 366. 
Lamberson. David, 350, 357, 

367, 368, 371. 
Lamberson, Eliza, 375. 
Lamberson, Sarah, 375. 
Lambert, Nicholas, 280. 
Lamphear. Mrs., 160. 
Langdon, Jane. 283. 
Langdon, Joseph, 281. 



422 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Lanman, Benjamin and Sarah, 

375- 
Lapman, Mrs. Kittie E., 214. 
Lashford, Elizabeth, 282. 
Latham, Margaret, 165. 
Latham, Priscilla, 283. 
Lating. Sarah, 327. 
Lattin, Horionter, 291. 
Latting, Garritt, 291, 350. 
Lawrence, Adam, 257^, 273, 272, 

275 282. 
Lawrence, Ann, 292. 
Lawrence, Benjamin, 295, 320. 
Lawrence, David, 293, 308, 343. 
Lawrence, Deborah, 273, 276, 

279. 
Lawrence Eliza, 277. 
Laurence, Elizabeth, 286, 304. 
Lawrence, Gilbert, 275. 
Lawrence, James, 359. 
Lawrence, Jane, 321. 
Lawrence, Malancthon, 305. 
Lawrence, Maria, 305, 341. 
Lawrence, Mary, 293, 343, 294, 

302. 
Lawrence, Mary Elizabeth, 321. 
Lawrence, Nathaniel, 276, 277. 
Lawrence, Patience, 301. 
Lawrence, Richard, 295, 298, 

339' 341- 
Lawrence, Robert, 293. 
Lawrence, Sarah, 273, 305, 341. 
Lawrence, Susanna, 277. 
Lawrence, Susannah, 276. 
Lawrence, William, 343. 
Leach, Sarah. 307. 
Leach, Obadiah, 307, 359. 318, 

342. 
Leak, Sarah Anne, 333. 
Leavenworth, Miss, 244. 
Le Branthwaite, Abraham, 318. 
Lefferts, Isaac, 363, 373. 
Lee. Christian, 285. 
Lee, Mrs. Hortense Campbell, 

184. 



Leister, Margaret, 292. 
Lent, Anna, 303. 
Leonard, Bishop, 199. 
Leonard, Charity, 276. 
Leonard, James, 276, 283. 
Leonard, Mary, 276, 375. 
Leonard, Thomas, 356. 
Lepner, Sarah, 388. 
Leslie, George, 375. 
Lester, Maria Lester, 334. 
Lewis, Abigail, 282. 
Lewis, Ann, 308, 343. 
Lewis, Catherine, 271. 
Lewis, Eloisa, 298, 339. 
Lewis, Elizabeth, 297, 298, 306. 
Lewis, Francis, 271, 297, 298, 

306. 
Lewis, James T., 182. 
Lewis, Jeptha, 269, 271. 
Lewis, Horatio Gates, 308. 
Lewis, Katherine, 269. 
Lewis, Nathaniel, 307, 324, 343. 
Lewis, Sarah, 269. 
Lewis, Mrs. T. W., 213. 
Lewis, Thomas, 282. 
Littlejohn, Bishop, 149, 197, 

218. 225. 226, 227. 
Livingston. Beloyal, 296. 
Livingston Phillip, 296. 
Livingston. Robert, 38, 53. 
Linville, Roy, 215. 
Llewellyn, W. D., 183, 184, 

194. 233. 
Llewellyn, William D., 184. 
Llewellyn, Mrs. W. D., 183. 
Llewellyn, Mrs. Mary Wilcock- 

son, 184. 
Lloyd, Henry Rebecca and 

Wm., 276. 
Lockwood, C. A.. 383. 
Lodge, J. Augustus, 154. 183, 

Lointhman. Thomas, 257, 259. 
London, Mrs.. 388. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



423 



Long Island Democrat, 201. 

Losey, Daniel, 321. 

Losee, Jno., 282. 

Lot, Charity, 293. 

Lot, Johannis, 368. 

Lothian, James, 384. 

Lothian, Mrs., 233, 244. 

Lott, Abraham, 370. 

Lott, Francis, 160. 

Lovatt, Mr., 183. 

Lovelace, Gov., 26, 71. 

Lowistoth, Margaret, 304. 

Loweree, Margaret, 320. 

Loweree, Isaac, Martha, Rich- 
ard. Samuel and William, 
342. 

Lowree, Richard, 306. 

Lowree. William, 291, 306. 

Luckey, Miss, 214. 

Ludlow, Arabella, 296, 297. 

Ludlow, Daniel, 297. 

Ludlow. Elizabeth, 302. 

Ludlow, Gabriel, 298. 

Ludlow, Daniel, 296. 

Ludlow, Frances, 294, 297. 

Ludlow, Mary, 294. 

Ludlum, Mary, 318. 

Ludlum, Nathaniel, 363, 366, 
367, 370. 

Ludlum, Daniel. 359, 362, 364. 

Ludlum, Wm., 362, 369. 

Ludlow, Gabriel, 340. 

Ludlum, John, 36^. '^yo. 

Luff. Gabriel. 86,^180. 

Lyde. Miss, 388. 

Lvde, Mr., 181. 

Lyell. Rev. Dr.. 116. 

Lyon, Miss C. C, 183. 

McClean. Margaret, 294. 

McClintock. Mrs. F. F., 214. 

McCollum, Phebe, 292. 

McCormick. Mrs. Elizabeth 
Thurman, 242. 

McCormick, Mrs. Richard C, 
184. 



McCormick, Richard, 184, 242. 

McDaud, Charles, 295. 

McDonald, John, James and 
Sophia, 297. 

McDonald, Miss Margaret, 165. 

MacDonald, Mrs., 202. 

McDuffy, Rev. H. S., 240. 

McErny, David, Jane and Wil- 
liam, 277. 

McEvers, Catherine, 294. 

McEvers, Charles, 351, 353, 

357- 
McFarland, Miss Elizabeth, 

250. 
McFarland, Mary, 185. 
McGee, James, 317. 
McGuffey, Rev. Edward M., 

230, 231. 
McKay, William, 181. 
McKee, Mrs., 387. 
McKenzie, 37. 
McKinley, William, death of, 

225. 
McKinley. President, letters 

of, 214. 
McKrell, James, 300, 328. 
McKrell, Martha, 309, 343. 
McKrell, Millar, 300. 
McKrell, William', 303. 
McKee, Peter, 291. 
McKee. William, 323. 
McMullin, Rev. G Wharton, 

223, 230. 233. 
McNeil, Major Charles, 181, 

323, 362. 
McNiel, Oliver, 314. 
McNiel, Thomas Pelham, 315, 

316. 
McNeile, George Benjamin and 

Robert, 309. 
McNeill, Mrs., 388. 
McNeill (Neil), 327, 369. 
McNeill, Robert, '325. 
McNeill. Sarah, 326. 



424 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



McNish, Geo., 71, •J2i^ 76, jj. 
McVicker, John, 292. 
Mackintosh, Phineas, 283. 
Mackarel, Daniel, 315. 
Mackrell, James, 326, 363, 365, 

366, 369, 370, 375. 
Mackeral, John Smith. 310. 
Mackrell, "Leticia and Milli- 

cent, 375. 
Mackrell, Mr., 114. 
Mackrell, Sarah, 375. 
Mackrell, Wm.. 326. 
Madock, Ann and Charity, 277. 
Madock, Daniel, 277. 
Major, Ann, 285. 
Mann. Mary Anne, 333. 
Mann, Thomas Charles, 292. 
Many, Robert, 334. 
Maria, Eliza, 125. 
Mariner. Andrew, 286. 
Marshall, Henry John. 320. 
Marston, Isabelle, 294. 
Martimore, Catherine, 274, 275, 

277. 
Martimore. Elizabeth, 277. 
Martimore, Hannah. 275. 
Martimore, Robert, 274. 
Martimore. Thomas. 274, 275, 

2yy. 
Martin. F. T., 183. 
Martin, Mrs. F. 'T., 183. 203. 

209, 244. 
Martin, Rev. Thomas. 231. 
Marton. Thomas. 365. 
Mash, William, 283. 
Masten, Frank, 363. 
Ma_ver. Miss Alice C, 244, 245. 
Mather, Revd. Cotton, 36. 
Matthis. James, John, Joseph. 

Sarah and Martha, 277. 
Meenen, James, 293. 
Meeting- House Lane, 56. 
Meke, Wm.. 366, 370. 
Melony, Joseph, 335. 



Memorial Parish House, 247. 
Menger, Wm., 335. 
Men's Club of Jamaica, 170. 
Menschen, Edward, 335. 
Meredith, Capt. John, 292. 
Merriwood, 198. 
Mesier, Rev. Henry, 231. 
Mesnerg, John, 351. 
Messenger, Ann, 375. 
Messenger, John, 359, 362. 
Messenger, Margaret, 375. 
Messenger, Samuel, 368, 369. 
Messiah, Church of the. 206. 
Meyer. John J.. 216. 
Meynen, Mr.. 176. 
Meynen, Dr. George K., 160, 

193, 213, 233, 250. 
Meynen, Mrs. George K., 211, 

214, 233. 
Meynen, P. K., 183, 184, 250, 

' 384. 
Meynen, Mrs. P. K., 184. 203, 

210. 211. 225, 233. 
Meynen. Mrs. P. K., 184. 203. 

210, 211, 225. 233. 
Middleburg, 18. 
Mijvvard, Robert and James, 

269. 
Milledoler, Dr.. 117. 
Millar. Henry, 215. 
Miller, Amelia, 337. 
Miller, Cynthia. 275. 
Miller. Deborah, 295. 
Miller, Jacob. 317. 
Miller, Jno., 274. 275, 277. 
Miller. John Jacob, 336. 
Miller. Julia, 274, 275, 277. 
Miller. Sarah. 274. 375. 
Miller. Sarah Julianna, 316, 

325- 
Mills, Amos, 357, 359. 361, 369. 
Mills, Caleb, 326, 364, 366, 367, 

375- 
Mills,' Catherine. 375. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



425 



Mills, Hope, 351, 353. 

Mills, John, 375. 

Mills, Mrs. Mary S. G., 87, 184, 

245- 
Mills, Nathaniel, 326, 351, 366, 

375- 
Mills, Obadiah. 350. 
Mills, Peter, 326. 
Mills, Robert, 293. 
Mills. Samuel, 278, 351. 368, 

370- 
Mills. Small, 282. 
Milward. Robert, 286. 
Minema, Daniel, 365. 
Minuit, Gov., 14. 
Mitchell, George.,1 321. 
Mitchell, John, 303, 322. 
Mitchell, Margaret, 291. 
Mitchell, Robert B., zt,^, 244. 
Miurson, Mr., 37. 
Moehler, Eleanora,' 2i37- 
Montress, Sarah, 318. 
Moore, Abigail, 302. 
Moore, Abraham, 339. 
Moore, Ann, 292. 
Moore, Anna, 307, 342. 
Moore, Benjamin, 278, 279, 298, 

339- . ■ 
Moore, Bishop Ricliard C, 113. 

116, 129. 
Moore, Charity, 270, 292. 
Moore, David, 292, 307. 
Moore, Elizabeth Channing, 

296. 
Moore, Elizabeth, 298, 306. 
Moore, Fanny, 302. 
Mooshake, Frederick. 333. 
Moor, Hannah, 279. 
Moore, Jacob, 292, 298. 
Moore, James, 306. 
Moore, Jane, 297. 
Moore, Jemima, 307. 
Moore, Johanna, 296. 301. 
Moore. Johanna,' 296. 301. 



Moore, John, 301, 306, 342, 356. 
Moore, Rev. John, 86, 113. 
Moore, Joseph, 307. 
Moore, Judah,' 296. 
Moore, Lambert, 357. 
Moore, Lydia, 305, 341. 
Moore, Martha, 292. 
Moore, Mary, 279, 292, 295. 
Moorej Nathaniel. 293, 296, 

305. 339- 
Moore, Nathan Fish, 297. 
More, Patience, 294, 309. 
Moore, Rebecca, 294, 305, 341. 
Moore, Samuel Hallet, 307. 
Moore,. Samuel, 352. 
Moore, Sarah. 296, 301, 303, 

338. 
Moore, Thomas, 307. 342. 
Moore, William, 297. 
Moor, Samuel. 270. 
Moorm, Samuel, 287., 
Morgan, Seabury, John I., 304. 
Morrell, Abbey, 308, 343. 
Morrell, Abigail, 291. 
Morrell, Fann3^ 314, 340. 
Morrell, James, 297, 301. 326, 

364. 366, 367, 375. 
Morrell, James Gilbert, 320. 
Morrell, John, 308, 343. 
Morrell, Joseph, 301. 
Morrell. Richard, 324. 
Morrell, Robert, 353. 
Morrell, Sarah, 291. 301, 308, 

326. 343, 375. 
Morris, Anna and Margaret, 

205. 
Morris. Col. 39, 43. 45, 46, 48. 

54, 58. 68. 72', 73. V4. 
Morris, Elizabeth, 324. 
Morris, Mrs. George, 211. 
Morris, Miss Isabel 20=;. 
Morris. Joseph, 359,1 365. 
Morton. Richard, 340. 
Moses, Mark Edward. 338. 



426 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Moss, Parnel, 281. 

Mott, Rev. Edmund, 53. " 

Mott,i Elizabeth, 319. - 

Mott, Lavina, 326. 

Mott, Mary and Thos., 321. 

Mott, Miriam, 280. 

Mottley, John, 375. 

Muchmore, Frank, 233. 

Miiller, Johanna, 337. 

Munden, Jno., 282. 

Mungers, Elizabeth, 279. 

Mung-ers, Jno., 279. 

Murrai (Murrail or Murrel), 

Abigail, 268, 276; Daniel, 

268; Hannah, 275, 276; 

Hester, 268; Jno., 268; 

Jonathan. 268, 276, 277, 

281; Judith, 268; Mary, 

^jy ; Parnell, 276, 277 ; 

Robert, 268; Sam'l, 275; 

Susannah, 268; Thomas, 

268. 
Napier, Andrew, 181, 182, 304. 

367, 368, 370. 
Napier, Ann, 375. 
Napier, Mrs. Catherine, 182, 

ZV^ 375- 
Napier.i Charles C, 170, 183, 

185. 193, 203, 222, 384. 
Napier, James, 315. 
Napier, John, 151, 185, 316. 
Napier, Mrs. Julia E., 183. 
Napier, Miss Kate, 233. 
Napier, Miss S., 384. 
Napier, Mr., 124, 176. 
Negrand, Adam, 335. 
Nelson, Mr. Joseph, 128. 
Neppert, Robert, 215. 
Nisbett, Rev. James, 198. 
Nisbett, Miss Emily Henrietta, 

198, 204. 
Newbold, Rev. Charles L., 231. 
Newman, John, 215. 



Newman, Sarah and William, 

3^5- 
Nicholson, Gov., 25, 26, 38, ^2. 
Nicholls, Ann Maria, 322. 
Nichols, Walter, 185. 
Nicoll, Henery, 292. 
Nicols, Catherine, 271. 
Nicols, Francis, 271, 282, 287. 
Nicols;i Gilbert, 2J2i- 
Nicols, Jane, 273. 
Nicols, Sarah, 271, 287. 
Nick, Catherine, Elizabeth and 

Peter, 271. 
Nies, Rev. William E., 231. 
Niles, Bishop, 125. 
Nolandv Phillip, 388. 
Northam, William, 284. 
Nostrand, Aaron, 359, 364. 
Nostrand, Catherine, 332, 378. 
Nostrand, Effy, 322. 
Nostrand, Eliza, 320. 
Nostrand, Elizabeth, 343. 
Nostrand, George, 182. 
Nostrand, Gitt}^, 376. 
Nostrand, John, 318, 376. 
Noostrandt, Greetie, 292. 
Nostrand, Mary, 293. 
Nostrand, Mary Ann, 343. 
Nostrand, Timothy, 181, ^76, 

385. 
Nostrand, Miss, 387. 
Nostrandt, Stephen Lott, 315. 
Nostrant, Elizabeth and John, 

308. 
Muller, Gearteaj 278. 
Oakley, Wilniot, 368. 
Oborne, Miss Bessie, 209. 
Oborne. Ernest, 383. 
Oborne, Miss Aline, 209. 
Oborne. Misses, 211, 249. 
Ogden, Elizabeth, 291, 376. 
Ogden, Isaac, 352. 
Ogden, Jacob, 257, 259, 295, 

350- 376. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



427 



Ogden, Mrs. Jacob, 354. 
Ogden, Mary, 293, 324, 396. 
Ogilvie, George, 280. 
Okely, Patience, 282. 
Oldfield, Hannah, 284. 
Oldfield, Joseph, 114, 176, 257, 

326, 351, 366, 376. 
Oldfield, Miriam, 292, 388, 396. 
Oldfield, Widow, 322. 
Olmstead, Rev. Dr. Charles, 

198. 
Onderdonk, Henry C... 65, 156, 

264. 
Onderdonk, Dr. John, 295. 
Ousterman, Peter, 319. 
Oyster Bay, 18. 
Pace, Miss Maud, 214. 
Palmer, Aaron, 318. 
Palmer, Thomas Martin, 294. 
Parfitt. Albert, 220. 
Parish Guild, 205, 210. 233, 

240, 344- 
Parish House, 172, 210, 218, 

220, 246. 
Parker, Edward, 365. 
Paul,; Sarah, 295. 
Payne, Ann, 338. 
Payne. A. T., 384. 
Peat, Hannah. 287. 
Pearson, Rev. Mr., 124. 
Peck. Rev. Isaac. 231. 305, 341. 
Peck, Richard. 305. 
Pedroni, Victor A., 319. 
Pell, Maria, 302. 
Pell, W. H., 384. 
Pennington, Frederick, 336. 
Perry,' Bishop J. J. P., 244. 
Perry, William, 179. 
Pette. Michael, 184, 384. 
Pets, Harold, 233. 
Pette, Lydia Euler, 184. 
Pettit, Hannah, 297, 339. 
Pettit.i Isaac. 297, 299, 301, 305, 

352. 356- 359. 366. 



Petitt, James, 294. 

Pettit, Jeane, 307. 

Petitt, Jenny, 343. 

Pettit, Mary, 297, 299. 301, 305, 

339. 
Pettit, Mr., 176. 
Pettit, Sarah, 305, 341. 
Pettit, Samuel, 297, 339. 
Pettit, Susan, 185. 
Pettit, Wm., 299, 340. 
Peyster, De, Ann, James and 

Sarah, 300. 
Phillips. Benjamin and Edw., 

269. 
Phillips, Daniel, 278. 
Phillips, Martha, 285. 
Phillips, Mary, 269. 
Phillips, Theophilus, 280. 
Phraner, Rev. W. H., 231. 
Pierce, Miss, 233. 
Pifer. George, 336. 
Pigot. Rev. Mr., 52. 
Pilyoun. Peter, 314. 
Pinckney. Amantha, Cecile and 

Susan, 376. 
Pinckney, P. C.. 387. 
Pitman, Charles W., ^22. 
Pitnot, Theresa, 335. 
Place, Mehetible, 321. 
Piatt, Anne. 332. 
Piatt. Benjamin. 294. 
Piatt, David, 317, 370. 
Piatt, Richard, 302. 
Poillon, Margaret A., 315. 
Polhemus, Frederick, 181, ■ 298. 
Polhemus, Johanne, 369. 
Polhemus, John, 298, 339, 350, 

352. 
Polhemus, Tunes, 352. 
Polhemus. Sarah. 298. 
Polhemus, Miss, 385. 
Pomerby, Harriet, 338. 
Pomeroy, Anna, Harriet and 

Josiah, 296. 



428 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Pond, R. E. and Mrs., 183. 

Pool, Pierre, 276. 

Pool,' Mary and James, 276. 

Poole, James H., ^^^. 

Port, Miss Irma, 209, 211, 244. 

Potter, Bishop Horatio, 140, 

141, 142. 
Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Cod- 
man, 228. 
Powell,! Oliver, 385. 
Powell, Mrs., 386. 
Powers, Sarah Helen. 322. 
Poyer, Daniel, 64. 
Poyer, Francis. 62, 287. 
Poyer, John, 62, 276. 
Poyer, Joseph, 62. 
Poyer, Sarah. 62, 65, 86, 180, 

274, 276, 279. 
Poyer, Rev. Thomas, 56, 60, 

62. 70. 72, 74, 7/, 274. 276. 

279, 287. 
Poyer's Register.^ 267. 
Presbyterians, 31, 51, 63, 67, 70. 
Presbyterian Church, 56. 
Prichard. Ann, 296, 338. 
Prien. Martha, 343. 
Prime, Nathaniel, W^ard and 

Sands, 181. 
Prince, Robert, 281. 
Prince, Wm.. 361, 364, 365. 
Provost. Rev. Samuel, 112. 
Prudden, Rev. John, 73. 
Pudney, John, 283. 
Puntine, Ann, 311, 316. 
Puntine, Elizabeth, 328. 
Puntine, Henry, 311. 
Puntine, Margaret, 306, 342. 
Puntine, Martha. 306. 
Puntine.i Mary. 311. 
Puntine. Mr.. 114. 
Puntine. Wm., t8i. 306. 357, 

362, 363. 365, 367,^368, 370. 

371- 
Purchase. Albert B., 20=;. 



Purchase, Clarence A., 205. 
Purchase, R., 383. 
Purchase, Mrs. R.,/ 213. 
Purdy, Cornelius, 299, 340. 
Purdy, David, 294, 298, 299, 

307, 343- 
Purdy. John, 309. 
Purdy; Levin ah, 299, 341. 
Purdy, Mary, 298, 299. 
Puntine, Nancy. 328. 
Puntine, Sarah. 314. 
Quacoe, Elizabeth, Peter and 

Thomas, 268. 
Quakers, 57. 29. 47. 
Queen Anne. 178, 179. 
Rand, Mr.. 159. 
Rapelai, Cornelius. 339. 
Rapalie, Mary. 294. 
Rapelai. Sarah, 291. 
Rapalay< Cornelius. 298. 
Rapaley, Bernard, 294. 
Rapalye, Catherine Ann. 309. 
Rapelye, Daniel and Ellen. 307. 
Rapelye, M., 384. 
Rapelye. Georg-e. 307. 
Rapelye. Charles, 376, 
Rapelyea, George, 342. 
Rapelyea, John, 350. 
Rapelyea, Mrs. Martin S., 203, 

233- 
Ratoon, Rev. Elijah Dunham, 
iTo, ITT, 112. 113. 114. 115, 

304- 
Rattoon. Margaret, 270, 287. 
Rattoon. Sarah, 270. 
Rattoon, Thomas. 270, 287. 
Ray, Robert. 182. 
Raynor. vSusan. 333. 
Raynor. Floyd. 234. 
Rebuilding Church. 1861, 182. 
Read. Abigail. Catherine and 

Robert, 286. 
Read. Small. 283. 
Reade, John and Marv. 80. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



429 



Reed, George, 295. 

Reed, Hannah, 285. 

Reed, Harry F., 216. 

Reeker, Elizabeth, 278. 

Reeve, Tiittle, 366. 

ReHef Society, Jamaica Hos- 
pital, 209, 211, 212. 

Regina, Mary, 336. 

Reid, Elizabeth and Thomas, 
302. 

Remsen, Abraham and Nauchy, 

319- 
Remsen, Mr., 176. 
Remsen.i Mrs. Philip H., 213. 
Remsen, Maria, 321. 
Remsen, Sarah, 314, 334. 
Renny, Mary, 301. 
Renny, Nathaniel, 341. 
Rensselaer, General Van, 174. 

186. 
Rew.' Abraham, 293. 
Reynolds, Augustin, 274. 
Reynolds, Catherine, 279. 287. 
Reynolds, Bythia, ZJ}^, 274. 
Reynolds, Edward, 279. 
Reynolds, George, 86,, 180, 272, 

' 2-/:^, 274, 279, 285, 287. 
Reynolds, James, 273. 
Reynolds, Nicholas, 279, 287. 
Reynolds, Rachel, 2^2.. 
Rhinelander, Mary. 185. 
Rhodes, Abiathar, 181, 317, 385. 
Rhodes, Deborah J., 185. 
Rhodes, James J.. 215. 
Rhoades, Richard W.. 212. 
Rice, Arthur W., 160. 
Rice, Bessie Sheridan, 162. 
Rice, Rev. Edwin B., 158. 
Rice, Zelia Stanton. 162. 
Richardson, William, 304. 
Riche, Phillip, 282. 
Richmond, Mrs. Edwin, 213, 

231. 
Rider, John. 292. 



Ridley, Solomon, 281. 

Riner, George, 321. 

Rising, Emma, ^yy. 

Ritchie, Andrew, 356. 

Roach, Charles and Elizabeth, 

301. 
Roach, James, 211. 
Roach, Judith Rosevelt, 308. 
Roach, Timothy, 303. 
Roades, Joseph, 282. 
Roarden, Jane and William, 

297. 
Robenson, William, 279. 
Roberts, Jeremiah, 317. 
Robinson, Joseph, 366, 368. 
Robinson, Miss, 198. 
Robinson, Mr.. 176. 
Robinson, Mrs. W. S., 383. 
Robinson, Sarah, 366. 
Roberts, Sarah, 284. 
'Rochford, Thomas, 354, 356. 
Rodnian, Charlotte, 322. 
Rodman, Clarissa. 308, 343. 
Rodman, Mrs., 387. 
Rodman, Thomas H., 333. 
Roe, Amanda, 376. 
Roe, Anna, 306, 308. 325, 342, 

342. 
Roe, Benjamin, 308, 325, 343. 
Roe, Betsy, 306, 342. 
Roe, Capt. Joseph, 32^, 340, 

388. 
Roe, Caroline and Ellen, 388. 
Roe, Charles, 272. 
Roe, David, 293. 
Roe, Elizabeth. 272, 308. 
Roe. Gilbert. 181, 308, 323. 343, 

Roe. Henry, 334. 

Roe, Helen, 322. 

Roe. John B., 181, 272, 282. 

Roe, Joseph, 181, 292, 308, 370. 

376. 
Roe, Lafayette and Lewis, 376. 



430 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Roe, Lawrence, i8i, 306, 326, 

342, 368, 376, 385. 

Roe, Margaret, 308, 343. 

Row, Mary, Susanna and Wil- 
liam, 277. 

Roe, Nathaniel, 308, 327, 343, 

376. 
Roe, Oliver, 292. 
Roe, Sarah, 323, 376, 385. 
Roe, Silas, 181, 308, 318, 323, 

343. 376. 

Roe, Thomas, 291, 308, 343, 

Roe, Wm., 322. 

Rogers, Rev. Robert, 230. 

Rood, Hope, 366. 

Rood, John, 362, 368. 

Roods, Abiather, 363, 365. 

Roods, Isaac, 362. 

Roods, John, 353. 

Roods, Nathaniel, 352, 361. 

Roods, Richard, 359. 

Roosevelt, Judith, 343. 

Roosevelt, Peter, 128, 302. 

Rose, Gilbert, 354, 357, 361. 

Rose, Joe, 365, 368. 

Ross, Mrs., 388. 

Rouch, Charles, 361. 

Rowe, Sarah, 291. 

Rowland, Anne, 317. 

Rowland, Benjamin, 181, 322, 

Rowland, David, 294, 328, 365, 

376. 

Rowland, Hannah, 318. 

Rowland, Ida, 181, 328, 376. 

Rowland, James, 316,' 322. 

Rowland, John, 376. 

Rowland, Mrs. Jane and Jona- 
than, 387. 

Rowland, Mary E. and Jose- 
phine, 185. 

Rowland. Miss, 388. 

Rowland, Mr.. 114. 129. 

Rowland, Mrs.. 385, 387. 



Rowland, Phebe, 320, 376. 
Rowland, Sarah, 292, 316. 
Rushmore, Sarah^ 280. 
Ryder, Miss Maud, 213. 
Ryder, Stephen, 291. 
Ryder, Wancke, 281. 
Ryeson, Peter, 292. 
Sackett, Augustus, 366. 
Sackett, Elizabeth,' 305, 377. 
Sackett, Hannah, 276, 278, 284. 
Sackett, James, 369. 
Sackett, Joseph, 276, 285, 359. 
Sacket, Mary.i 2)77- 
Sackett, Millecent, 378. 
Sackett, Samuel, 295, 305, 324, 

341, 359' Z77- 
Sackett, Thomas, 276,1 326, 377. 
Sackett, William, 285. 
St. Cecilia's Coffee House. 41. 
St. Cornelia Flower Guild, 204, 

240. 
St. Gabriel's Church, 162. 
St. George's Church, 37, 56, 97, 

III, 179. 
St. James' Church. 56, iii, 231, 
St. John's Church, 225. 
St. Mark's Church, 197. 
St. Michael's Church, 204. 
St. Paul's Church. Albany, 206. 
St. Peter's Church, 94. 
St. Phebe's Mission House, 

196. 
St. Stephen's Chapel, 240. 
Sale, Ann^ 377. 
Sale. Daniel Edward, 315. 
Sale. Eliza, 317. 
Sale. William. 385. 
Saltman, Charles. 293. 
Sanctuary enlargement, 218. 
Sanders. Ann. 282. 
Sands, Abigail. 285. 
Sands. Mary. 278. 
Santon. Philis. 321. 
Satherland. Jennet, 358. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



431 



Satterlee, Rev. Henry W., i66. 
Sawyer, Catherine, 269^ 284, 

286. 
Sawyer, Daniel, 86, 180. 
Sawyer, Francis, 269, 286. 
Sawyer, Rachel, 286. 
Sawyer, Thomas, 269. 
Sayres, Abigail and Martha, 

33^- 
Sayres, Annie Eliza, 126, 326. 
Sayres, Anna Leah, 125. 
Savres. Elizabeth, 153, T,^y, 

, ' 385. 
Sayres. Rev. George H., 116, 

117. 120, 122, 123, 124, 176, 

181, 336. 
Sayres, Gilbert Barker, 125, 

179. 252, 2S3, 384. 
Sayres, Isaac, ^yy. 
Sayres, John T., 328, 379. 
Sayres. Lydia, 126, 334. 338. 
Sayres, Mary Regina, 126. 
Sayres, Rev. William Seaman, 

" 125- 
Sayres. William J., 151, 182, 

' 335- 
Schenck, Helen, 322. 
Schible, John, 336. 
Schmitt. Rev. F., 231. 
Schoonmaker, George Henry, 

337. 3^3- 
Schoonmaker, Rev. Jacob, 133. 
Schuyler, Mrs. Eugene, 186. 
Scot, David, 280. 
Scott, Capt. John, 18. 
Scriba. Mrs., 385. 
Seabury, Rev. Samuel, 56, 88, 

89, 92, 176, 257. 
Seabury's (Rev. S.) death, 94, 

loi, no. 
vSealy. Charles,. 309. 
Sealy, Elizabeth, 314. 
Sealy, Emeline, 377. 
Sealy, George Ireland, 315. 



Sealy, John, 317. 

Sealy, Joseph, 181,, 302, 368, 
370, 377, 387. 

vSealy, Mrs., 386. 

Sealy, Richard, 322. 

Sealy, Robert, 311. 

Sealy, Ruthj 293. 

Seaman, Anna Leach, 333. 

Seaman, Cornelia, 320. 

Seaman, Hannah R., 322. 

Seaman, Israel, 292. 

Seaman, Rowland, 332. 

Seaman,, William, 293, 336. 

Seavey, Charles H., 215. 

See, Mr., 221. 

Shandine, Daniel, 285. 

Shaw, Elizabeth. 321. 

Shelly, Daniel, 215. 

Shelton, Nathan, 317. 

Sherlock, William,. 257, 259. 

Shimmins, Margaret, 377. 

Shoals, John, 298, 340. 

Shutphen, Aidy, 294. 

Silleck, Nathan, 278. 

Simison, Charles. 333. 

Simison, Jeremiah, 385. 

Simison, Mary Ann, 386. 

Simison, Mrs., 323. 

Simmons, Charles, 303. 

Simmons, Jane, 283. 

Simmons, Nathaniel (daugh- 
ter), 323. 

Simmons, Samuel, 360. 

Simmonds, William, 309, 343, 
360. 

Simonson, Ann Augusta, 185. 
209.i 259. 

Simonson, Aury, 371. 

Simonson, Charles J., Eliza- 
beth, Peter, Rebecca and 
Sarah, 377. 

Simonson, Jeremiah, 181, 377. 

Simonson, Misses, 205, 211, 
244- 



432 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Simonson, Miriamen, 314. 
Simonson, Miss Sadie, 209. 
Simonson, Mr., 176. 
Simonson, Smith M., 384. 
Sinclair, Mrs., 386. 
Sipkins, Jno., 278. 
Skillman, Joseph H., 112. " 
Skidmore, Abigail, 326, 378. 
Skidmore, David W., 182,1 333. 
Skidmore, Elizabeth, 378. 
Skidmore, Jno., 285. 
Skidmore. John, 129, 181, 182, 

. 335> 362, 363, 364, 384. 
Skidmore, Mabel, Brenton, 184. 
Skidmore. Mr., 114, 176. 
Skidmore, Mrs., 385. 
Skidmore, Samuel, 350, 351, 

-, . 378. 

Skidmore, Susanna and Tred- 

well, T^yS. 
Skidmore. Widow, 322, 387. 
Skidmore, Willett, 358,. 362, 

. 367- 
Skinner, Abraham, 363. 
Skinner, Gertrude, 292. 
Skinner, Margaret, 363, 377. 
Skinner, Phillip, 355. 
Skinner, Widow, 314. 
Sliney, Charles, 216. 
Smallings, Thomas. 284. 
Smalshanks, Ann, 274. 
Smalshanks, Cornelia,' 276. 
Smalshanks, James, 274, 275. 

276. 
Smalshanks, Mary,' 274, 275, 

276. 
Smelt, Louisa, 383. 
Smiley, W^m. and Maria, 377. 
Smith, Abel, 281. 
Smith, Abigail, 271, 272, 278. 
Smith, Ann, 298, 302, 306, 340. 
vSmith, Arthur, 270, 271, 272. 
Smith, Benjamin and Howell, 

353- 



Smith, Catherine, 335, 385. 

Smith, Charles, 363. 

Smith, Christopher, 85, 300, 

357. 360, 363. 
Smith, Daniel, 182, 272. 
Smith, Deborah, 268, 287. 
Smith, Elizabeth, 280, 286, 292, 

Smith, George, Lucy and Wes- 

sell, 377. 
Smith, Hannah, 268, 269, 272, 

273, 284, 287. 
Smith, Hester,! 282. 
Smith, Hutchins, 298. 
Smith, Jacob, 371. 
Smith, James, 181, 231, 293, 

. 334, 364. 377. 386. 
Smith, Jane, 322. 
Smith, Jeffrey, 367, 370. 
Smith, Jemima, 269. 
Smith, Johanna, 307, 343. 
Smith.. John, 257, 268, 269, 286, 
319- 342, 350, 351, 353, 357. 

. 358, 3^3^ 364. 366, 369, 377. 
Smith, Joseph.' 73. 
Smith, Katherine, 328. 
Smith, Leonard, 272. 
Smith, Margaret. 296. 
Smith, Martha, 304, 377. 
Smith, Mary, 87, 269, 282, 291, 

296, 300, 314. 333 338. 
Smith, Micah, 283. 
Smith, Mrs. G. W., 153. 
Smith, Mrs. Manning, 213, 214, 

.384,389- 
Smith, Nathaniel and Nicholas, 

364. 
Smith, Nehemiah, 73, 366. 
Smith, Noah, 371. 
Smith, Othniel, 363. 
Smith, Phebe, 28d 320. 
Smith, Piatt, 358. 361. 
Smith, Rebecca. 268. 



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433 



Smith, Rev. Dr. George Wil- 
liamson, 150, 199,1202, 229, 
230, 233, 246, 386, 389. 

Smith, Rev. James A., 176, 193. 

Smith, Ruth, 269, 286; 311. 

Smith, Samuel, 78, 86, 180, 257, 
259, 268, 269, 272.. 273, 287. 

Smith, Sarah, 273, 292, 338. 

Smith, Simeon, 366, 370. 

Smith, Susan, 333. 

Smith.i Thomas, 296, 361. 

Smith, Walters, 359. 

Smith, William Wood, 234, 292, 
304, 309^ 320, 323, 341, 359, 
3^7-1 370. 

Smithfield. Deborah, 340. 

Smyth, C. G., 183, 216. 

Smyth, John, 234. 

Smyth. Miss Lillian, 205. 

Snedecker, John. 352, 355. 

Snediker.i Tracy, 234. 

Snediker, Mr., 176. 

Snow, James, 215. 

Society for the Propagation of 
the Gospel, 32. 

Sonmans, Peter and Susanna, 
270. 

Soothoff, John C., 182. 

Southard, Thomas, 318. 

Spark, Jonas,/ 285. 

Speeding, Rachel Ann, 185. 

Spillane, Paul J., 215. 

Spiller, Henry E., 202. 

Spragg, John, 321. 

Springsteen, David, 363. 

Sprong, David, 362. 

Sproul, Elizabeth, 328. 

Sprouls, Emeline. 335. 

Sproull, James J., 303, 378. 

Sproull, Jeremiah. 378. 

Sproull, John. 181. 378. 

Sprowls. Jane Isabella, 319. 

Starman, Eliza Henrietta, 317. 

Steed, Charity, 275. 

Steed, Elizabeth and Sarah, 
276. 



Steed, Mary, 358. 

Steed, Smith, 274. 

Steed, William, 86, 180, 274, 

275,, 276, 280, 355. 
Steendam. Jacob, 20. 
Stehlin, Miss Josephine, 203. 
Stehr, Robert, 215. 
Stephenson, Daniel, 278. 
Stephenson, Susanna, 280. 
Stewart, Charles J., 184. 
Stewart,) Lydia, 125. 
Stewart, Mrs. Is.. 387. 
Stewart, Mrs. J. E., 160, 233. 
Stevens, George A., 216. 
Stevens, James, Jno. &, 269. 
Stevenson, Thomas, 285. 
Stilwell,' Catherine, 285. 
Stillwell. Elizabeth, y^,. 
Stiles, John, 354. 
Stine, Elizabeth, 333. 
Stirling, Lord, 15. 
Sticklin, Mary, 301. 
Stilwel, Rebecca, 280. 
Stocking.i Rev. Samuel S., 155, 

160, 176, 183, 184, 196, 200, 

203, 204, 221, 222. 283. 
Stoebner, Rev. Frederick 231. 
Stockton,. Richard, 272, 282. 
Stone Church, 49, 51, 112. 
Stone, John, 353. 
Stoothofif, Mr., 176. 
Story, Henry, 318. 
Story, Zebediah, 362. 368. 
Stoterv Peter, 317. 
Sturt. Mr.. 41. 

Stuyvesant, Gov., 17, 19, 25. 
Strebeck. Rev. George. 115. 
Straub, Henry. 337. 
Strickland, Oliver. 367, 369. 
Strickland, Sarah, 318. 
Strictland, Jonathan. 298. 
Strictland, Mary. 298. 339. 
Steed. Deborah,' 274. 275, 276, 

280. 



434 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Stringham, Joseph, 291. 

Stringham, Mary and Thom- 
asj 279. 

Stroud, Rachel, 271. 

Stroud, William, 271, 280. 

Stringham, Wm. and Mrs.. 319. 

Styne, Anna, 293. 

Suffragan, Bishop. 38. 

Sullivan, Miss C.,' 384. 

Sullivan. Florence, 293. 

Sunday School, 194, 209, 240, 
243, 246, 247, 205, 206, 197, 
207, 210, 216. 219. 

Sutherland, Elizabeth, -i^jy. 

Sutherland. Maria. 359,- 377. 

Sutherland, John, George and 
Jennet. yjJ- 

Suydam. Eliza. 185. 

Suydam, John, 365. 

Swayzee. Wm., 387. 

Svmmons, Henrv and Richard. 
281. 

Sypher, Abraham, 320. 

Symonson, Elizabeth and Jere- 
miah, 315. 

Taffers, James. 350. 

Talmon. Jane, 292. 

Talman. Mary. 280. 

Talman. Sarah.i 284. 

Talbot, Rev. John, 45, 53, 54, 

274. 

Tannerman, Catherine. 335. 

Tapp. Mrs.. t8i. 

Tator. Sarah, 383. 

Taylor, Arianthe, 272J 273. 274. 

Taylor. Benjamin. 86, 180, 272. 
273, 274, 280. 

Taylor"^ Willett. 274. 

Taylor. Wm.,i 365. 

Taylor. Henry, 215, 272. 

Tellet. Susanna. 284. 

Temple. Thomas. 86. 

Templeton, Catherine and Oli- 
ver. 299. 



Templeton, Jane, 299,1 340. 
Tenison, Archbishop, 16, 135. 
Terrel, Antony, 356. 
Terrill, Anthony and Phebe, 

296. 
Thatford, Anna, 305. 319, 341, 

388. 
riiatford, Caroline, 314. 
Thatford. Catharine, 325, 328, 

378. 
1 hatford, Charitv, 299, 30s. 

328. 
Thatford, Jane, 378. 
Thatford, John, 181, 295, 299, 

305, 362., 378. 
Thatford, Margaret and Sarah, 

303- 
Thatford, Martha Prien, 308, 

317- 
Thatford, Mary. 299, 309, ^40. 

378. 
Thatford, Mr.j 176. 
Thatford. Mrs., 386. 
Thatford. William, 310, 350, 

378. 
Theobauld. Mrs.. 386, 388. 
Thomas. Jno., 285. 
Thomas.) Mary, 320. 
Thomas, Rev. John, 54, 69. 
Thompson, Arabella G., 338. 
Thompson. Ira C. 215. 
Thompson. Margaret, 185. 
Tompkins. Edward and John. 

342. 
Thorn, Ann.i 295. 
Thorn, Bathsheba. 302. 305. 

341- 
Thorn, Daniel, 292, 298, 305, 

340. 341- 
Thorn. Mary.i 305, 341. 
Thorn, Samuel, 294. 
Thorn, Winifred, 286. 
Thorne. Benjamin, 86, 180. 
Thorne. Daniel, 364. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



435 



Thorne, Kesiah, Mary,' Phebe 

and Richard, 283. 
Thurston, Abby, 378. 
Thurston, Benjamin, 362. 
Thurston, Cornelia, 322. 
Thurston, EHzabeth, 291, 378. 
Tluirston,! Grace, 280. 
Thwing, Rev. Cornelius, 141, 

230. 
Tiex, Elizabeth, 282. 
Tillotson, John, 125. 
Titus, David, 301, 306, 341. 
Titus, Jacob and Robert, 284. 
Titus, James, 283. 
Titus, John, 181. 
Titus, Joseph, 292. 
Titus, Mrs., 388. 
Titus, Patience, 298, 324. 
Titus,; Sarah and Susanna, 295. 
Titus, William David, 298, 340. 
Tolman, James, 279. 
Tolman, Jno., 280. 
Tom, Mary, 292. 
Tompkins, Edward and John, 

306. 
Tompkins, Gilbert, 309. 
Tompkins, Sarah, 306, 342. 
Town, Thompson, 319. 
Tonstal, Ann, 274. 
Townley, Rev. Frank W., 231. 
Townsend, Eliphant, 278. 
Townsend,! Henry, 17. 
Townsend, Thomas P., 181, 

378. 
Tuly, Ann and Catherine. 
Tuly, Christopher. 272. 282. 
Tuttle. Daniel and John, 358. 
Tuttle, Joseph, 362. 367. 
Tuttle, Samuel, 365, 367. 
Tunes, John, 257. 
Turner, Elinor and Jno., 269. 
Turner, Mary and Samuel. 297. 
Treadwell., Mr., 94. 
Trinity Church, 71, loi, in, 

112, 129. 



Trinity Church, Fishkill, 193. 
Trinity College, 199. 
Troup, Alexander, 314, 325. 
Troup,! Christopher, 323, 378. 
Troup, Elizabeth, 340, 385. 
Troup, John, 85, 176, 179, 257, 

259. 295, 305 J 2>27, 341, 350, 

365, 370, 2>7^. 
Iroup, Mrs., 181. 
Troup, Robert, 308, 343. 
Troup, Sarah, 305; 378, 385, 387. 
Iroup, Thomas Colgan, 310. 
Truxton, Thomas, 257. 
Tyler, Jacob, 351, 353. 
Udal, Deborah, 281. 
Uitendale, Paulus, 378. 
Ulshoffer, Michael, 320. 
Umphreys, Elizabeth, 272, 276, 

277. 
Umphreys, Jno., 277. 
Umphreys. Thomas, 272, 276. 

277. 
Umphreys, William, 276, 285. 
Underbill. Ann, 298, 340. 
Underbill, Elizabeth Ann, 306. 

342. 
Underbill, Hannah, 298, 306, 

340. 
Underbill, Jonathan, 298, 306, 

340. 
Underbill, Mary, 281, 298, 340. 
Underbill, Mr., 114. 
Underbill, Sarah, 298. 340. 
Underbill, William, 298, 340. 
Unwin, Mrs. William and Wil- 
liam, 184. 
Urquhart. Mr.. 37, -^i,' 54. 55- 

56. 61, 68, 71. 
Ustick, Ann, 302. 
Ustick, Deborah, 295. 
Ustick, Jane, 302, 304. 
Ustick, Susanna. 302, 303. 
Ustick, William, 302. 
Valentine, Ann, 284. 



436 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Valentine, Elihu. 
Valentine, Elizabeth, 389. 
Valentine, Jacamiah, 364. 
Valentine, James.i 181, 388. 
Valentine, James, Jr., 181. 
Valentine, Jeremiah, 114, 133, 
135, 151, 181, 182,333, 379, 

384. 
Valentine, John, 2,22, 379. 
Valentine, Martha, 379. 
Valentine, Mary, 379, 386. 
Valentine,! Miss, 182, 389. 
Valentine, Obadiah, 379, 389. 
Valentine, Mrs. Obadiah, 387, 

389- 
Valentine, Phillip, 368. 

Valentine, Miss Rachel. 
Valentine, Ruth, 379,1 284. 
Valentine, Sarah, 185, 379. 
Valentine, Susan, 379. 
V^alantine, Thomas, 282. 319, 

323- 
Valentine.., Valentine, 379. 
Valentine, William, 379. 
Van Allen, Elizabeth, 309, 343. 
Van Allen, Mrs. Henry, 225, 

233, 384- 
Van Beuren, John, 318. 
Van Brunt^ Elizabeth, Joseph, 

Margaret, Rutgert and 

Sarah, 378. 
Van Brunt, John, 361, 378. 
Van Brunt, Joshua, 351, 354, 

364. 365. '367- 
Van Brunt J Jost., 361, 378. 
Van Brunt, Mr., 176. 
Van Brunt, Tunis, 369. 
Van Dam, Eliza, 314. 
Vandebugh, Mrs.,\388. 
Vanderbilt, Jeremiah, 379. 
Vanderwater, Elizabeth, 292. 
Vanderwater, Samuel, 321. 
Van Cortland, Phillip, 352. 
Van Cortland, Richard and 

Sarah, 379. 



Van Cortland, 174. 
Vanderverg, Nathaniel, 182. 
Vanderverg, Mr.,i 124, 151. 
Vanderverg, Sarah, 333. 
Van Lew, James, 362. 
Van Lue, John, 326, 355, 357, 

Van Lew, Richard,i 326. 
Vandervoort, Aletta, 388. 
Vandervoort, Ann, 181. 
Vandevoort, Lydia B., 319. 
Vandervoort, Mrs., 162. 
\ andervoort, Paul, 324. 
Vandervoort,! Peter, 302, 
Vandervoort, Mrs., 385. 
Vanhoef, Isaac, 257. 
Vanhorne, Mary, 292. 
Van Hook, Isaac, 86, 180, 280. 
Vanpelt, Elizabethj 294, 305, 

341. 
Van Pelt, Jacob, 300. 
Vanpelt, John, 299, 340. 
Van Pelt, Marg., 306, 342. 
Van Pelt, Susanna, 306. 
Van Velsa, Hester, 284. 
Van Nostrand., Ann, Charles, 

Martha, Rachel, Sarah and 

William, 379. 
Van Nostrand, Aaron, 96, 119, 

176. 301, 328, 353, 397, 385. 
Van Nostrandv Elizabeth, 379. 

320. 
Van Nostrand, John, 181, 378, 

379. 385. 387- 
V^an Nostrand, Joseph, 324, 379. 
Van Nostrand, Phebe M., 387. 
Van Nostrand, Mary, 320, 378. 
Van Nostrand, Nicholas, 378. 
Van Nostrand, Thomas, 322, 

379- 

Van Nostrand, John and Ste- 
phen, 318. 

Van Nostrand, William, 317. 

Van Renssalaer, Ann, 379. 



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437 



Van Sandty Winant, 351, 385. 

\'an Sicklen, Charity, 318. 

Van Sinderen, Adrian, 181. 

Van VVickley, Margaret, 309. 

Van Wyck,, Altie, 283. 

Van Wyck, Catherine, 284. 

Van Wyck, Cornelius, 291. 

Van Wyck, Sarah, 182, 294. 

Van Wyck, Theodorus, 283. 

Vassar, Edward, 337. 

Vassar, Thomas, 334. 

Verity, John, Joseph and Sam- 
uel, 33^. 

Verity, VVm. Henry, 334. 

Verplank, Gillon, 294. 

Vestrymen and wardens, 186. 
190, 261. 

Vesey, Rev. Mr., 37, 50, 53, 65, 
71, 80, 86. 

Vaughn, Aletta, 296, 297, 338. 

V^aughn, William, 296, 297. 

Vockroth, Otto, 215. 

Voorhase, Elizabeth, James and 
John,, 307. 

Vooheis, Eliza, Marian, 315. 

Voorhoes, John and Sarah, 340. 

Voris, Stephen, 359, 364. 

Walker, Catherine, 270. 

Walker, Elizabeth, 270,. 275. 

Walker, Frances, 268. 

Walker, Jno., 270, 275. 

Walker, Samuel, 268. 

Walles, Alexander, 352. 

Wallers History of Flushing, 
29. 

Wallers. Rev. Henry D., 104. 
200, 231. 

Wararop, James, 352. 

Ward, Miss T- Gertrude, 183. 

Ward, Mrs. Ann. 388. 

Ward, Mrs. Eldora. 214. 

Ward, Mrs. Francis K., 186. 

Ward, Phebe, 380, 388. 

Ward, Samuel, Sr., 181. 



Ward, Samuel, Jr., 181. 
Wardens and vestrymen, 186- 

190, 261. 
Warne,> Aletta, 300, 380. 
Warne, Catherine, 304. 
Warner, Henry W., 319. 
Warren, Tarquina Caro, 338. 
Warne, Wm., 360, 380. 
Washbourn, Samuel, 276. 
Washbourn, Hannah; 276. 
Washbourn, Jno., 276. 
Washington, Gen., 99, 112. 
Waterbury, Henry, 303. 
Waters, Aletta, 298,1 339. 
Waters, Ann, 297, 298, 304, 306, 

339, 341. 
Waters, Anthony, 86, 180, 284. 
Waters, Daniel, 280. 
Waters, Elizabeth, 292, 316, 

318. 
Waters, Foster, 275, 276, 277, 

279. 
Waters, Gilbert, 275. 
W^aters, Hannah, 304, 341. 
Waters, James, 356; 359, 360, 

361, 362, 380. 
Waters, Jno., 276, 277. 
Waters, John, 296, 297, 298, 

301,, 306, 328. 
Waters, Judah, 321. 
Waters, Margaret, 304, 324, 

341- 
Waters, Mary, 275. 276. 277, 

279. 
Waters, Misses M. and E., 383, 

384. 
Waters, Mrs., 389. 
Waters, Oeggy, 359. 
Waters, Oliver, 292. 
Waters, Richard Betts, 309. 
Waters, Talman James, 316. 
Waters, William; 292. 304. 341. 
Watkins, Dr. W. F., 159. 
Watts, Jane, 283. 



438 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Watts, Pearson, 321. 
Way, Richard, 295. 
Way, Ann, 295. 
Way, Timothy, 303. 
Wayne, Mrs., 225. 
Waynman, Ann, 298, 340. 
Waynman, Hannah, 298, 340. 
Waynman, Sarah, 340. 
Waynman, WilHam,) 294, 298. 
Weaver, Catherine, 306, 342. 
Weaver, Sarah, 306, 342. 
Weaver, WilHam, 306. 
Weberj Albert, 233. 
Weeden.' Alger E., 202. 
Weeden, James, 182. 
Weeks, Eliza, 317, 318. 
Weeks. Jno., 284. 
Weeks, Rev. William H., 231. 
Weeton, Jno., 278. 
Welling, Alice Bannister, 316. 
Welling, Anne, 379, 
Welling, Bonnella, 302. 
Welling, Benjamin, 305, 318, 

380. 
Welling, Catherine. 303. 
Welling, Charles, 298, 328, 358, 

379- 380. 
Welling, Edward, 380. 
Welling, Elizabeth, 305,; 328, 

380, 385- 
Welling, Ennis, 379. 
Welling, Hannah. 380. 
Welling, Helen, 379. 
Welling, James. 357. 
Welling, John, 181, 309, 310. 

366, 371, 379. 
Welling, Leanna, 310. 
Welling. Mary, 380. 385. 
Welling, Matilda, 314. 
Welling, Miss Martha, 385. 
Welling, Miss, 323. 
Welling. Mrs., 389. 
Welling. Nancy, 181. = 388. 
Welling. Richard, 298, 339. 



Welling, Samuel, 129, 181, 

305, 328, 380. 
Welling, Sarah,. 283, 293, 307, 

343, 388. 
Welling, Susanna, 296, 379. 
Welling, Thomas, y-ii^ 182, 296, 

310, 326, 351,1356, 362, 366, 

399- 
Welling, William, 86, 180, t^t^^)- 
Wells, Ann and Robert, 273. 
Wells, Bishop, 244. 
Welt, Walter, 233. 
Welwood, Rev. J. C, 230. 
Wenman,! Everet, 386. 
West, Mary, 286. 
West, William, 270, 278, 286. 
Westay, Albert F., 216. 
Whaley, Hannah, 294. 
Whellin, Charles, 270. 
Whellin, Bickley, 270. 
Whellin, Eliza and Hannah, 

277. 
Whellin, Elizabeth, 270, 272. 
WHiellin, Francis, 272. 
Whellin, Jane, 270. 
Whellin, Jno., 270, 271, 273, 

277, 285. 
Whellin, John, 274. 
Whellin, Sarah, 270, 271, 273, 

274, 279. 
Whellin, Thomas, 270, 272, 273, 

292. 
Whellin, Willm. 270, 271. 
White, Ann, 284. 
White, Arthur, 233. 
White, Catherine, 271. 
White, Abigail, 271. 
White, Daniel, 269. 
White, Elizabeth, 283. 
White, Mrs. Theodore K., 203. 
White,. Peter, 268, 269. 271. 
White, Richard Grant, 115. 
White. Ruth, 268. 
White, William, 286. 



OF GRACE CHURCH 



439 



Whitehead, Abigail, 268, 269, 

270, 271, 283, 287. 
Whitehead, Ann, 274. 
Whitehead, Benjamin, 86, 180, 

257, 259, 276, 277, 284. 
Whitehead,- Charity, 270, 283. 
Whitehead, Danie'l, 86, 180, 

268, 270, 274, 275, 284, 285, 

286 .> 297, 298, 306, 310, 324, 

.350, 351, 354, 359- 380. 
A\ hitehead, Elinor, 274, 275, 

277. 
Whitehead, Edward Bardin, 

298. 
Whitehead. Catherine, 297, 

298, 306, 339, 380. 
Whitehead, Eliza, 276. 
Whitehead, Elizabeth, 274, 

277, 285. 
Whitehead, Fanny, 30J. 
Whitehead, Hannah, 274. 276. 
Whitehead, Helena, 276. 
Whitehead, Jane. 268, 286. 
Whitehead, Jonathan. 270, 286. 
Whitehead,, Maria. 310. 
Whitehead, Mary, 285. 
WHiitehead, Nancy, 361. 
White, Rev. Calvin, 114. 363. 
Whitehead. Sarah, 270, 285. 

286. 
AX'hitehead. Susanna.. 270. 
Whitehead, Thomas, J^, 270, 

274. 276, 284, 286. 
Whitfield. Mr.. 92. 
Whitlock, Miss Hattie. 135. 
Whitman.- John Winslow. 322. 
Wick, Rev. R. K., 230. 231. 
W^ickes, Eliphalet. 365. 
Wickes. Thomas. 371. 
Wickham. Hannah. 181. 385. 
Wickham. Marv.i 389. 
Wickham. Sarah. 388. 
Wiesnar, Catherine. 281. 
Wiggins. xA.nn, 297. 299. 306, 

342. 



Wiggins, Benjamin, 274, 275, 
277, 350- 



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Caleb. 275. 
Catherine, 284, 357. 
Charity, 277. 
Elizabeth, 275. 
Gershon. 275. 
Harry, 371. 
Isabella, 271, 282. 
Jane, 299, 340. 
John. 352, 358. 
Josias, 271. 
Lucretia, 297, 339. 
Margaret and Simon. 



ggins. 

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297. 
Wiggins. Martha, 296, 338. 
Wiggins. Mary. 275. 282, 297. 

339- 
Wiggins. Rachel. 274. 275. 277. 

Wiggins. Rebecca. 287. 

Wiggins. Richard. 297. 299. 

306. 328. 339. 364. 371. 
Wiggins. Samuel. 292. 
Wiggins. Silas, 86, 180. 
Wiggins. Stephen. 274, 296, 

297, 
Wiggins. Thomas. 271. 287. 
Wiggins. William. 86. 180. 283. 
Wilcocks, 281. 
Wildey, Mary, 278. 
Wilkins. Isabella. 296. 
Wilkins. Isaac, 296. 
Wilkins. Thomas. 296. 338. 
Wilkins. William, 295. 
Wilkinson, Mrs. A. J., 233. 
Willet, Abraham, 280. 
Willet. Alice. 292. 
Willet, Samuel. 274. 
Willet, Sarah, 268, 276. 282. 
Willet, Thomas, 268. 283. 284, 

287, 297, 339. 
Willet,, Thomas, 268, 287, 283, 

287, 306, 341- 
Willet, William, 286. 



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ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



Willett, Alette, 276, 277, 292, 

380. 
Willett, Ann, 296. 
Willett, Catherine and Elbert, 

380. 
Willett, Charles, 287. 
Willet, Deborah, 274. 
Willett, Edward, 85, 86, 180, 

274, 276, 277, 284, 354, 355, 

380. 
Willet, Elizabeth, 268, 274, 276, 

278, 284. 
Willet, Helena, 280. 
Willety James, 358. 
Willet, Jno., 274, 276. 
Willett, Johanna, 276. 
Willett, John, 86, 180, 276, 286, 

293, 350. 
Willettv Jonah, 380. 
Willett, Keziah, 284. 
Willett, Margaret, 284, 296. 

297. 33^' 339- 
Willett, Marinus, 297, 339. 
Williams, Captain Daniel, 294. 
Williams, Jacob, 321. 
Williams, Mary, 295. 
Williams, Pelliata, 303. 
Williams, Sarah, 316. 
Williamson, Derica, 278. 
Williamson, John, 357, 359, 

368, 380. 
Willis, Benjamin, 275. 
Willis, Hannah, 293. 
Willis, Martha, 274. 
Willis, Robert, 274, 275. 
Willis, Sarah. 274, 275. 
Willoughby, Mary, 295. 
Wiltsie, Miss Amy, 209. 
Wilson, James, 287. 
Wilson, Mr., 91. 
Winchester, Ernest T., 202. 
Winthrop, Matilda, 320. 
Wood, Epentus, 320. 
Wood, Herbert, 233. 



Wood, Howard, 233. 
Wood, Robert, 274. 
Wood, Timothy, 284. 
Wood, William' D,, M. D., 184, 

193, 228, 241, 242, 274, 380. 
Woodred, Nelly, 303. 
W^oodred, Woodred, 324. 
Woodward, Anthony, 319. 
Woodward, Rev. Samuel, 125. 
Wooffendale, John, 365. 
Woofendale, Miss, 114. 
Wooley, Ann, 282. 
Wooley, Miss Elizabeth, 146. 
Wooley, Susan, 304. 
Wooley, Miss Sarah, 140, 160. 
Woolsey, Abigail, 287. 
Woolsey, Derica, 269, 286. 
Woolsey, Rebecca, 286. 
Woolsey, Ruth, 269, 286. 287. 
Woolsey, Thomas, 287. 
\Voolsey, William, 269, 278, 

286'. 
Worthington. Bishop, 199. 
W^ortman, Elizabeth, 292. 
Wortman, Hannah, 292. 
Wright, Ann, 275. 
Wright, Charles, 275, 321. 
Wright, Daniel, 278. 
Wright, Henry, 86, 180. 
Wright, Leveridge,, 285. 
Wright, Mary, 283, 285. 
Wright, Ruth, 275. 
Wright, Sarah, 281. 
Wyck, Miss Anne Van, 134, 

136. 
Wyckoff Camp at Montauk, 

212. 
Wyckoff, Sheriff, 365, 366. 
Yandle, Jane, 307, 343. 
Yeomans, Hannah, 281. 
Young, Guy, 180, 274. 275, 283. 
Young, Hannah, 281. 
Young, Elizabeth and William. 

274. 



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441 



\'oung, Elmira A., 337. Youngs, Mary Elizal)cth, 334. 

Young, John Alvin, 183. Zandt, Jane Van, 87. 

Youngs, Daniel and Eliza, 275. Zanlz, Sarah. 320. 




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